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Using HTML5 To Hide Malware

Posted by timothy on from the but-html5-is-magic dept.

New submitter Jordan13 writes: SecurityWeek reports on the findings of a group of Italian researchers about web malware. They developed three new obfuscation techniques that can be used to obfuscate exploits like the one usually leveraged in drive-by download malware attacks. These techniques use some functionalities of the HTML5 standard, and can be leveraged through the various JavaScript-based HTML5 APIs. The research also contains recommendations about some of the steps that can be taken to counter these obfuscation techniques.

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  1. Direct link to PDF by rebelwarlock · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.03467v1.pdf

    Because 1) these geniuses don't know how to do a hyperlink, and 2) the article is completely worthless aside from a link to a page that links to the PDF.