Obfuscation Through Legitimate Appearances

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Obfuscation Through Legitimate Appearances<p>Recently, I analyzed a malware sample provided by our analyst Edward C. Woelke and noticed that it had been placed in a core WordPress folder. This seemed suspicious, since no such core WP file like it exists: ./wp-includes/init.php</p>

Deceiving Appearances

I started with a standard analysis and my first thought was, this has to be a legitimate file! Nicely structured, with very legit-looking function names. It even used Object Oriented PHP, which doesn’t happen very often in the case of malware.

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Spotlight on Women in Cybersecurity

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Hacked Website Trend Report – 2018

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