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Why Depending On Malware Prevention Alone Is No Longer An Option

WEBINAR

July 18, 2013

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Welcome

Aviv RaffChief Technology Officer

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Advanced Threats in the News

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Define Target

Create/Acquire Malware

Researchthe Target

"QA" for Detection

Infect the Target"Call ..Home"

ExpandAccess

ExtractData

EnhancePresence

Stay Undetected .

How Advanced Threats Work

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1. Preparation

2. Infection

3. Deployment

4. Persistence

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Threat

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Define Target

Create/Acquire Malware

Researchthe Target

"QA" for Detection

Infect the Target"Call ..Home"

ExpandAccess

ExtractData

EnhancePresence

Stay Undetected .

Traditional Defenses

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• Focus on prevention:– Endpoint products– Firewalls– IPS / IDS

• Is 100% prevention really feasible?– 0-day exploits– Spear-phishing– Remote access (VPN)

– BYOD– Partners– Physical access

AdvancedPersistent

Threat

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• Shamoon is a 2-stage attack targeting Oil & Energy companies

• Comprised of 3 modules– Dropper– Reporter– Wiper

• Extracting data via an internal infected machine proxy

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Shamoon Targeted Attack

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• Spreading itself on the local network via Scheduled Tasks

• Abuse a legitimate & signed RawDisk driver to wipe MBR

• Wiper module Time Bomb– Wipe drive and MBR at

specified dates and times– Others copycat this capability

Shamoon Targeted Attack

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• Initial attack vector is still unknown– Physical access / Insider– Partner– Spear phishing

• Time based attack (time bomb)• Worm spreading in local network• Using local machine as a proxy• Most of the victim companies were using

solutions which are focused on prevention

Shamoon – Why It Wasn’t Prevented?

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• A customer uploaded a suspicious file to the Seculert Elastic Sandbox

• Malware behavioral profile was automatically created

• Shamoon was detected on another customer using Big Data analysis of their gateway traffic logs

• Customers use Seculert API to enhance their on-premises security devices to protect against Shamoon

How Seculert Identified Shamoon?

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From Prevention to Protection

Persistent attacks require a new approach

Big Data analytics

Long-term analysis

Advanced malware profiling

Automated expertise

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