For attackers they are a formidable barrier to conquer in order to successfully compromise a pc. So true anti-exploit solutions that revolve around stopping the attack techniques are kind of’ the holy grail against exploit attacks and their malware.
Blocking exploit techniques stops exploit attacks on existing and future vulnerabilities and prevents malware from being delivered, no matter how obfuscated, new or sophisticated this malware is.
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To deliver malware to as many victims as possible, attackers turn to web-borne exploits that abuse vulnerable software (like Flash and Java) running on computers that visit trusted websites that contain malicious ads (malvertising) or hidden iframes that load an attack site.īut did you know that there are only a two dozen techniques to abuse any vulnerability, known and unknown? And often it takes more than a year before researchers or attackers come up with a new attack technique!ĭid you also know that, depending on the vulnerability, always two or more techniques (like Heap Spray, Stack Pivot and Return-Oriented Programming (ROP)) must be used in sequence in order to be successful and deliver malware on victim’ machines? Software that aims to detect and block exploit techniques are e.g. the behaviour-based anti-exploit technologies in both EMET and HitmanPro.Alert focus on the attack techniques and stop attacks without requiring threat information or signatures based on prior knowledge of attacks.įor people who are unfamiliar with this terrain, some background explanation is in order why is there a need for software like EMET or HitmanPro.Alert. Somewhat like EMET’s philosophy, the technologies in our HitmanPro.Alert solution are also completely signatures-less, i.e. Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) has seen its share of bypasses and when it is bypassed, the underlying approach grabs our attention. Every once in a while, security researchers try to bypass security solutions for kicks, fame, marketing and to raise awareness for a new vulnerability that totally foils protection.