Handler on Duty: Guy Bruneau
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SANS Stormcast Friday, Apr 4th: URL Frequency Analysis; Ivanti Flaw Exploited; WinRAR MotW Vuln; Tax filing scams; Oracle Breach Update
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URL Frequency Analysis; Ivanti Flaw Exploited; WinRAR MotW Vuln; Tax filing scams; Oracle Breach Update
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Exploring Statistical Measures to Predict URLs as Legitimate or Intrusive
Using frequency analysis, and training the model with honeypot data as well as log data from legitimate websites allows for a fairly simple and reliable triage of web server logs to identify possible malicious activity.
https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Exploring%20Statistical%20Measures%20to%20Predict%20URLs%20as%20Legitimate%20or%20Intrusive%20%5BGuest%20Diary%5D/31822
Critical Unexploitable Ivanti Vulnerability Exploited CVE-2025-22457
In February, Ivanti patched CVE-2025-22457. At the time, the vulnerability was not considered to be exploitable. Mandiant now published a blog disclosing that the vulnerability was exploited as soon as mid-march
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-exploiting-critical-ivanti-vulnerability/
WinRAR MotW Vulnerability CVE-2025-31334
WinRAR patched a vulnerability that would not apply the “Mark of the Web” correctly if a compressed file included symlinks. This may make it easier to trick a victim into executing code downloaded from a website.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-31334
Microsoft Warns of Tax-Related Scam
With the US personal income tax filing deadline only about a week out, Microsoft warns of commonly deployed scams that they are observing related to income tax filings
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/03/threat-actors-leverage-tax-season-to-deploy-tax-themed-phishing-campaigns/
Oracle Breach Update
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-02/oracle-tells-clients-of-second-recent-hack-log-in-data-stolen
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