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Latin1 vs UTF8

Latin1 was the early default character set for encoding documents delivered via HTTP for MIME types beginning with /text . Today, only around only 1.1% of websites on the internet use the encoding, along with some older appplications. However, it is still the most popular single-byte character encoding scheme in use today. A funny thing about Latin1 encoding is that it maps every byte from 0 to 255 to a valid character. This means that literally any sequence of bytes can be interpreted as a valid string. The main drawback is that it only supports characters from Western European languages. The same is not true for UTF8. Unlike Latin1, UTF8 supports a vastly broader range of characters from different languages and scripts. But as a consequence, not every byte sequence is valid. This fact is due to UTF8's added complexity, using multi-byte sequences for characters beyond the general ASCII range. This is also why you can't just throw any sequence of bytes at it and e...
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Agent Tesla Spearphishing

More .NET malware analysis. In this post, we'll be analyzing another spearphishing email, this time masquerading as a mathematics paper exploiting CVE-2017-11882. And we'll generate some Yara rules for detecting it.
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Sysmon Custom Templates for Event Tracing

A few days ago I learned it's possible to modify Window's Sysmon to enable tailored Windows Event Tracing. By simply providing Sysmon with an XML ruleset, we can generate custom alerts and automatically filter for and tag particular events. For example, the following rule would alert us of proxy code execution using .NET's C# compiler, csc.exe: <!-- MITRE ATT&CK TECHNIQUE: Obfuscated Files or Information: Compile After Delivery --> <Rule name="Attack= T1127.001,Technique=Trusted Developer Utilities Proxy Execution ,Tactic=Defnse Evasion,DS=Process: Process Creation,Level=4,Alert=CSC Suspicious Location,Risk=60" groupRelation="and"> <Image condition="image">csc.exe</Image> <CommandLine condition="contains any">\AppData\;\Windows\Temp\</CommandLine> The above is a snippet from the default template published by @SwiftOnSecurity . But various orgs have made their own forks. And it can be furth...
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