When you download an application or installer from legitimate website, you establish a level of trust expecting not to be tricked or deceived. Distribution: The installer is distributed by Starfield … Continue reading “Analysis of OSX Starfield”
Operating Systems
About Mac OS X v10.6.4 ‘XProtect’ Update
Pob of SophosLabs found this interesting update, please read this blog post Updated XProtect protects against OSX.HellRTS Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard Anti-Malware signature file ‘XProtect.plist’ has new definition … Continue reading “About Mac OS X v10.6.4 ‘XProtect’ Update”
Mac OS X Ransomware
I just read the blog post of Dancho this morning titled “Mac OS X SMS ransomware – hype or real threat?” Well, the Mac security community is pretty much aware … Continue reading “Mac OS X Ransomware”
Do you use Adobe Reader?
Exploited PDFs has been prevalent attack vector for awhile now but only in Windows but never been in Mac. I had discussed this here, the prevalence, “util.printf()“, Virut generated PDFs … Continue reading “Do you use Adobe Reader?”
Summary of ASF File Specification
Related to recent threat infecting Windows media files, this summary definitely help researcher understand how to dissect ASF file. But what is ASF file? The ASF is the file format … Continue reading “Summary of ASF File Specification”
Zero Day: OS X ARD Agent Root Escalation Vulnerability
This is scary, I’ve tried and it works perfectly …. And now, a new OS X trojan on the loose exploiting this vulnerability. So, what is this all about ? … Continue reading “Zero Day: OS X ARD Agent Root Escalation Vulnerability”