Polymorphic Python Malware, (Wed, Oct 8th)

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Today, I spoted on VirusTotal an interesting Python RAT. They are tons of them but this one attracted my attention based on some function names present in the code: self_modifying_wrapper(), decrypt_and_execute() and polymorph_code(). A polymorphic malware is a type of malware that has been developed to repeatedly mutate its appearance or signature files at every execution time. The file got a very low score of 2/64 on VT! (SHA256:7173e20e7ec217f6a1591f1fc9be6d0a4496d78615cc5ccdf7b9a3a37e3ecc3c).

More .well-known Scans, (Thu, Oct 2nd)

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I have been writing about the ".well-known" directory a few times before. Recently, about attackers hiding webshells [1], and before that, about the purpose of the directory and why you should set up a "/.well-known/security.txt" file. But I noticed something else when I looked at today's logs on this web server. Sometimes you do not need a honeypot. Some attackers are noisy enough to be easily visible on a busy web server. This time, the attacker hit various URLs inside the ".well-known" directory. Here is a sample from the > 100 URLs hit: