‘Old Phantom Crypter’ supplants older Microsoft Office exploit builder tools

guest · Feb 15, 2019

‘Old Phantom Crypter’ supplants older Microsoft Office exploit builder tools
February 15, 2019
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/sec...older-microsoft-office-exploit-builder-tools/

Out with the old, in with the… Old Phantom Crypter, which despite its name is actually a new Microsoft Office exploit builder that’s been surpassing its predecessors in popularity among the cybercriminal community.

Gabor Szappanos, principal malware researcher at SophosLabs, described the ascendance of Old Phantom yesterday in a company blog post, which links to a more detailed technical paper.
Old Phantom Crypter first emerged roughly 11 months ago, originating as a PE cryptor before adding the Microsoft Office exploits capabilities as a means to deliver the executable,
Szappanos reports.

Sophos has observed Old Phantom Crypter available on the dark web for a $199 per month subscription. “Additionally, we can estimate the number of customers to be around 100,” Szappanos reports.
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Technical paper: "The Old Phantom Crypter" (PDF - 2.56 MB): https://sophos.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/the_old_phantom_crypter.pdf

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