Re: New article on SecurityFocus

[Alexander Sotirov <asotirov () determina com>]

H D Moore wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 January 2006 19:49, Erin Carroll wrote:
>
> > Out of curiousity has anyone done any testing against
> > the new signatures to determine if they are code specific or if tricks
> > like tagging %0%0 in the payload bypasses them?
>
>
> All of the current IDS/AV signatures are based on the following pattern:
>
> (All values below are in hex)
>
> ---
> [ any number of bytes ] 
> (01 or 02) + 00 + 09 + 00 
> [ any number of bytes ]
> 26 + 09 + 00

Some AV products might be using this basic signature, but they probably have a
second layer of more complicated checks to avoid false positives. Otherwise
they'll trigger on any WMF file that includes 26 09 00 in some random record.
F-Secure parses the metafile and traverses all records the same way
GDI32!PlayMetaFileRecord does, looking for the META_ESCAPE record. If you can
break their parser and avoid detection, the Windows function will most likely
break too and fail to play your file. It's a pretty solid technique, but of
course, the more complicated your parser gets, the greater the chance of having
a bug in it. They were lucky that WMF is easy to parse.

The IDS systems were the ones that were really screwed. It is much harder to
reassemble TCP, decrypt SSL and parse WMF files on a gigabit link :-)

Alex

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