4、安全厂商揭露PayPal复杂网络钓鱼
标题:Hook, line, and sinker - A closer look at a sophisticated phishing kit
作者信息:FEBRUARY 02, 2017 By Proofpoint Staff
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Overview
While many financial phishing schemes require development of bank- and region-specific phishing pages, PayPal's international reach and widespread popularity mean that attackers can develop phishing pages once and attack in multiple regions. Proofpoint researchers recently encountered a phishing email message that led to what appeared to be a benign PayPal login page. Analysis quickly determined that the login page was in reality a very well-crafted phishing page, but the real innovations of this campaign were revealed in the clever workings of the landing and the campaign’s sophisticated administrative backend.
一般而言,网银木马都带有明显的区域特性。但是这里讲的PayPal以极其广泛而深入的国际化使得攻击者只需要开发一次页面,就能在很多区域中使用。安全公司Proofpoint的研究人员最近发现了一个钓鱼邮件,经过初步观察,看起来很像是一个没啥危害的PayPal登录页面。但是仔细分析后发现原来该登录页面是一个经过巧妙伪装的,其背后有一个功能强大、复杂的管理后台支撑着。
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Conclusion
As attackers continue to turn away from the use of exploits and other means of compromising victim PCs and stealing information via malware, they are developing increasingly sophisticated means of collecting credentials and other data directly through phishing schemes. The use of phishing kits like the one detailed here provides threat actors with ready access to turnkey templates and administrative backends that make harvesting data from unsuspecting victims all too easy. These phishing pages look legitimate and users are already accustomed to "restoring account access" through various verification procedures, many of which are included in this example.
This particular kit also illustrates the advanced state of "crimeware as a service", an inexpensive and straightforward means of conducting phishing scams with low barriers to entry and future possibilities for combining malware distribution with phishing. The presence of an admin panel like that described here is currently quite rare among credential phishing kits, although we have observed such panels associated with APT activities and "white hat" phishing frameworks. However, as tools and approaches in phishing continue to evolve, we expect this to become more common and, understandably, popular with phishing actors.
攻击者们已经腻于利用各种漏洞或者通过各种恶意代码盗取用户的敏感信息,近期发现转而采用高级的钓鱼邮件方式来直接搜集用户的登录凭证以及一些其他的数据。特别是有一些成熟的钓鱼邮件专用开发包,模板功能非常丰富、功能也很强大,这些都使得高级的钓鱼活动既隐蔽,而且获得用户的信息也非常方便。这些页面都非常逼真,用户也习惯与通过各种验证流程来恢复其账户的访问。
这已成为Crimeware as a Service(为网络犯罪提供一条龙服务):门槛低、价格便宜、使用也方便的钓鱼组件,人们有理由相信在不远的将来会与各种恶意代码相结合,给用户造成更大的伤害。虽然这些钓鱼专用的工具和办法越来越进化,预计它会变得越来越普遍。
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