CONTENTS:

NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY
VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES October 24 - 31, 2019
TOP VULNERABILITY THIS WEEK: OceanLotus APT part of renewed push in mobile malware space

NOTABLE RECENT SECURITY ISSUES
SELECTED BY THE TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP

Title: Nation-state actors are behind new slew of mobile malware
Description: A new report highlights how nation-state-backed APTs are utilizing the mobile malware space to conduct espionage activities on their own citizens. Security researchers at BlackBerry discovered new campaigns from actors linked to the Chinese, Iranians, Vietnamese and North Koreans. Among these attackers is the infamous OceanLotus group, which has launched a new attack that contains both mobile and desktop components. OceanLotus is deploying malicious apps onto mobile stores that “spy” on the user’s device.
Reference: https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/home/mobile-malware-and-apt-espionage-prolific-pervasive-and-cross-platform.html
Snort SIDs: 52004, 52005

Title: Denial of service in VMWare Fusion
Description: VMware Fusion 11 contains an exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability. VMWare Fusion is an application for Mac operating systems that allows users to run other OSs in a virtual environment, such as Windows and Linux. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by supplying a malformed pixel shader inside of a VMware guest OS. This vulnerability can be triggered from a VMware guest and the VMware host will be affected, leading to a VMware fusion process crash on the host.
Reference: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2019/10/vuln-spotlight-vmware-fusion-oct-19-dos.html
Snort SIDs: 50502, 50503

INTERESTING NEWS FROM AROUND THE SECURITY COMMUNITY

Researchers from Microsoft say the well-known Russian APT group Fancy Bear may be looking to disrupt the 2020 Summer Olympics by attacking anti-doping agencies.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/371602/microsoft-russian-hackers-might-be-targeting-2020-olympics

Google Home and Nest users are being urged to update their devices as soon as possible to patch a vulnerability that allowed some third-party apps to eavesdrop on voice recordings.
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/update-your-google-home-security-settings-to-protect-against-eavesdroppers/

China recently adopted a new set of policies it says boosts its domestic cyber security, but skeptics say its actually just an attempt to collect more data on its citizens.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3448578/chinas-mlps-20-data-grab-or-legitimate-attempt-to-improve-domestic-cybersecurity.html

A North Korean hacking group was reportedly able to obtain domain controller-level access to a crucial nuclear power plant in India; it appears the goal of the campaign was to steal information, not cause any damage to the plant.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/indian-nuke-plants-network-reportedly-hit-by-malware-tied-to-n-korea/

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules that would require telecommunications companies to remove all Huawei and ZTE components from its equipment.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/fcc-rules-huawei-zte/

The country of Georgia was hit with a massive cyber attack Tuesday, taking down more than 2,000 websites and disrupting the national TV station.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50207192

A new device disguised as a phone charger takes over users’ phones and interacts with pages on Google, Amazon, and other websites in an attempt to degrade the reliability of information collected by data brokers.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm4da/this-charger-takes-over-your-phone-to-poison-the-ad-data-amazon-wants

New malware discovered on Android phones cannot be removed, even after a factory reset of the device, as it continues to reinstall itself.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-unremovable-xhelper-malware-has-infected-45000-android-devices/

RECENT VULNERABILITIES FOR WHICH EXPLOITS ARE AVAILABLE
COMPILED BY THE QUALYS VULNERABILITY RESEARCH TEAM

This is a list of recent vulnerabilities for which exploits are available. System administrators can use this list to help in prioritization of their remediation activities. The Qualys Vulnerability Research Team compiles this information based on various exploit frameworks, exploit databases, exploit kits and monitoring of internet activity.

ID: CVE-2019-11043
Title: PHP 7 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multi-Vendor
Description: The vulnerability resides in the “env_path_info” underflow in PHP-FPM . It contains pointer arithmetics that assumes that env_path_info has a prefix equal to the path to the php script. However, the code does not check this assumption is satisfied. The absence of the check can lead to an invalid pointer in the “path_info” variable. The vulnerability allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands on a vulnerable server by a specially crafted URL.
CVSS v2 Base Score: | 9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2019-16662
Title: rConfig Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Multi-Vendor
Description: An issue was discovered in rConfig where an attacker can directly execute system commands by sending a GET request to ajaxServerSettingsChk.php because the rootUname parameter is passed to the exec function without filtering, which can lead to command execution
CVSS v2 Base Score: | 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2019-7609
Title: Kibana Timelion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Elastic
Description: Kibana Timelion visualizer is exposed to an arbitrary code execution vulnerability. An attacker with access to the Timelion application could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.
CVSS v2 Base Score: | 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2019-14287
Title: SUDO Security Policy Bypass Vulnerability
Vendor: Multi-Vendor
Description: When sudo is configured to allow a user to run commands as an arbitrary user via the ALL keyword in a Runas specification, it is possible to run commands as root by specifying the user ID -1 or 4294967295. This can be used by a user with sufficient sudo privileges to run commands as root even if the Runas specification explicitly disallows root access, as long as the ALL keyword is listed first in the Runas specification. For example, this allows bypass of !root configuration, and USER= logging, for a “sudo -u #$((0xffffffff))” command. An attacker with access to a Runas ALL sudoer account can bypass certain policy blacklists and session PAM modules, and can cause incorrect logging, by invoking sudo with a crafted user ID.
CVSS v2 Base Score: | 9.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

ID: CVE-2019-1306
Title: Azure DevOps and Team Foundation Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Microsoft
Description: Remote code execution vulnerability exists when Azure DevOps Server (ADO) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) fail to validate input properly. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute code on the server in the context of the TFS or ADO service account. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to upload a specially crafted file to a vulnerable ADO or TFS server repo and wait for the system to index the file.
CVSS v2 Base Score: | 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

ID: CVE-2019-8460
Title: OpenBSD TCP SACK Denial of Service Vulnerability
Vendor: OpenBSD
Description: OpenBSD kernel can be forced to create long chains of TCP SACK holes that cause very expensive calls to tcp_sack_option() for every incoming SACK packet which can lead to a denial of service vulnerability. The SACK holes sorted list is bounded in the TCP established state of the connection by (1) the size of the pool (up to 32K entries), and (2) by the TCP retransmit timer (whose interval could be up to 64 seconds). This means that an attacker could manipulate the connection’s window scaling and RTT, forcing the victim to send a large amount of not-ACKed data and increase its retransmission timeout. This in turn enables the attacker to send a large number of SACKs. As the sorted list of SACK holes becomes larger, inserting additional elements becomes more expensive, resulting in higher and higher CPU consumption that may eventually lead to a denial of service vulnerability.
CVSS v2 Base Score: | 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

ID: CVE-2019-10149
Title: Exim Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Exim
Description: Exim is exposed to remote command execution vulnerability. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root. Improper validation of recipient address in deliver message() function in /src/deliver.c may lead to remote command execution.
CVSS v2 Base Score: | 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

ID: CVE-2019-16920
Title: D-Link Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: D-Link
Description: Unauthenticated remote code execution occurs in D-Link products. The issue occurs when the attacker sends an arbitrary input to a “PingTest” device common gateway interface that could lead to common injection. An attacker who successfully triggers the command injection could achieve full system compromise.
CVSS v2 Base Score: | 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

MOST PREVALENT MALWARE FILES October 24 - 31, 2019
COMPILED BY TALOS SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH GROUP

SHA 256: 7acf71afa895df5358b0ede2d71128634bfbbc0e2d9deccff5c5eaa25e6f5510
MD5: 4a50780ddb3db16ebab57b0ca42da0fb
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7acf71afa895df5358b0ede2d71128634bfbbc0e2d9deccff5c5eaa25e6f5510/details
Typical Filename: xme64-2141.exe
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.7ACF71AFA8-95.SBX.TG

SHA 256: 3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3
MD5: 47b97de62ae8b2b927542aa5d7f3c858
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/3f6e3d8741da950451668c8333a4958330e96245be1d592fcaa485f4ee4eadb3/details
Typical Filename: qmreportupload
Claimed Product: qmreportupload
Detection Name: Win.Trojan.Generic::in10.talos

SHA 256: 46b241e3d33811f7364294ea99170b35462b4b5b85f71ac69d75daa487f7cf08
MD5: db69eaaea4d49703f161c81e6fdd036f
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/46b241e3d33811f7364294ea99170b35462b4b5b85f71ac69d75daa487f7cf08/details
Typical Filename: xme32-2141-gcc.exe
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.46B241E3D3-95.SBX.TG

SHA 256: 85b936960fbe5100c170b777e1647ce9f0f01e3ab9742dfc23f37cb0825b30b5
MD5: 8c80dd97c37525927c1e549cb59bcbf3
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/85b936960fbe5100c170b777e1647ce9f0f01e3ab9742dfc23f37cb0825b30b5/details
Typical Filename: Eternalblue-2.2.0.exe
Claimed Product: N/A
Detection Name: W32.WNCryLdrA:Trojan.22k2.1201

SHA 256: 6b01db091507022acfd121cc5d1f6ff0db8103f46a1940a6779dc36cca090854
MD5: 74f4e22e5be90d152521125eaf4da635
VirusTotal: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6b01db091507022acfd121cc5d1f6ff0db8103f46a1940a6779dc36cca090854/details
Typical Filename: jsonMerge.exe
Claimed Product: ITSPlatform
Detection Name: W32.GenericKD:Attribute.22lk.1201