.EXE Slips through AntiExe !

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  1. safeguy

    safeguy Registered Member

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    This is nothing new. Sandboxie was once affected until Tzuk dealt with the problem.

    If you are concerned, the easiest method is to disable 16-bit compatibility if you are on 32-bit (as mentioned by moonblood). If you really need to run 16-bit program, then perhaps consider DOSBox emulator as mentioned here?

    http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8901
    http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=7152
    http://www.sandboxie.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=6307

    I doubt so..probably legacy apps or games mostly.
     
  2. Peter2150

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    Be careful how you test in appguard, as appguard isn't really an anti executable program. How it reacts depends on where the exe is located and the protection setting. A better test would be with NVT's ERP. THere you could take nvdm.exe off the whitelist and that way you could monitor it by command line. Much better test.

    Pete
     
  3. jmonge

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    exactly
     
  4. LoneWolf

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    Not a peep from Faronics AE v5.
    DefenseWall successfully contains the exe as untrusted which is easily killed within DW's GUI.
     
  5. CloneRanger

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    @ aigle

    Thanks for the extensive test :thumb:

    I've always put cmd.exe on Prompt in PG & now i've added ntvdm.exe ;)

    I can't remember if PG alerts to .bat & .vbs ? but AnalogX\Script Defender takes care of them & others ;) See below

    @ PrevxHelp

    Hi, good to see that WRSA intercepted the .PIF file ;) That ZIP-IT "seems" to work in a very convoluted way :D

    I tried to run eicar.com

    e.png

    ntv.png

    Allowed both those &

    16.png

    I did see that MSDOS alert when ran the original .EXE etc, but chose ignore !

    @ Brummelchen

    Thanks for the link :thumb:

    @ Cutting_Edgetech

    PM'd ;)

    @ moonblood

    Good tip, though some of us like to run old stuff, now & then :D

    @ safeguy

    Good tips :thumb:

    @ LoneWolf

    Thanks for testing :thumb:
     
  6. Brummelchen

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  8. LoneWolf

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    Faronics AE v2 successfully blocks. :thumb:

    ae2-1.png

    If I disable the copy prevention option within AE, I still get this.....

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  9. Brummelchen

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    no, is concerning #1 "normal exe" - normal exe always start with MZ or ZM, rest als linked.
     
  10. Rmus

    Rmus Exploit Analyst

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    Yes, Copy protection prevents the file from being extracted to disk:


    winspkse.jpg

    Newer versions of AE don't have Copy protection. I found this really useful in home environments,
    where kids couldn't even extract or download any EXE to disk w/o parent's permission.


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    rich
     
  11. m00nbl00d

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    I gave it a little test, using the Group Policy that I previously mentioned (the one that allows to prevent execution of 16-bit processes), and as expected the process fails to run.

    I also have AppLocker enabled, and to my surprise the group policy is what stopped it first, so I wonder if group policies preceed AppLocker, or if AppLocker would simply fail? :doubt: I still haven't tried with only AppLocker.
     

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  12. jmonge

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    nice one blood:thumb:
     
  13. m00nbl00d

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    It does bypass AppLocker! :eek:

    So, the group policy should be kept enabled, unless one really needs to use 16-bit apps.
     
  14. jmonge

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    :thumb:good testing
     
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    Tested on Win7x64 and as someone else discovered it won't even run, regardless of the Group Policy setting, which I have disabled in the screenshot, because of the version of Windows, so neither it nor AppLocker factor in to the equation.

    On Win XP with SRP enabled, it is successfully blocked by SRP :)

    With SRP disabled, I'm able to view the zipped files but Jetico fw's Process Attack filter intercepts the attempted actions of ntvdm.exe.

    Some screen shots....
     

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    @ LoneWolf/Rmus/m00nbl00d/wat0114

    Thanks for testing :thumb:
     
  17. wat0114

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    You're welcome, CloneRanger! Thanks again for the file.
     
  18. Cutting_Edgetech

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    I've been wanting to try out the latest version of Faronics AE. I hope I can get my test machines back soon.
     
  19. m00nbl00d

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    Would you (if possible) or someone else give it a run against SRP on Windows 7 x86? I'm wondering if SRP would stop it there? I find it odd that SRP, considered to be inferior to AppLocker, is able to stop it and AppLocker gets bypassed. Maybe Microsoft believes it not to be a problem, which is why AppLocker (SRP v2, so to speak) ignores it? o_O SRP in Windows 7 is pretty much a leftover.
     
  20. trismegistos

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    How about alerting PG for wscript.exe and cscript.exe aside from cmd.exe for that .bat & .vbs?

    Aside from ntvdm.exe, include debug.exe as well. I recall a zero day windows vulnerability before wherein a malware attacks windows virtual dos machine subsystem and bypass various security layers.

    SSJ100 recommends these for SRP but you can probably adopt those with PG:
    source: -http://ssj100.fullsubject.com/t4-ssj100-s-security-setup#16-
     
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  21. wat0114

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    Sorry I've only got x64 installed, and it's just too much time and effort to install x86 to test this :(
     
  22. CloneRanger

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    @ trismegistos

    Hi, i have had wscript.exe & cscript.exe disabled by renaming them, since 98SE days ;)

    .bat & .vbs along with others are covered by ScriptDefender, also since then.

    Re - debug.exe & command.com

    com.png

    Which PG then alerts

    nvt.png

    PG also gives the same alert when trying run debug.exe

    I'll look into scrobj.dll Thanks :thumb:
     
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