A VoodooShield issue

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TheMalwareMaster

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Good afternoon... I found a probable issue of VoodooShield. Usually, .lnk files are blocked immediatly after execution. This one, though, was able to start cmd.exe and powershell.exe. After that, it launched wscript. but that was blocked. What do you think? The sample is "orcamento" in this Malware Vault pack
https://malwaretips.com/threads/11-08-2017-20.74469/
VirusTotal: Antivirus scan for 779f0e75f2136979a0430c1aefbe0e663ef7762ea270b22bcaa2d1d65d9f6655 at 2017-08-17 05:37:52 UTC - VirusTotal
Malware Analysis: Free Automated Malware Analysis Service - powered by VxStream Sandbox - Viewing online file analysis results for 'linkagent.zip'

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Nice notice. The question relies in wether the file could bypass VoodooShield anti-executable technology or it was somehow highlighted as safe due to same system rules.
 
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With the .lnk sample in this pack https://malwaretips.com/threads/27-7-17-13.73970/
linked to regsvr32.exe, VoodooShield immediatly blocks the command line. But it was linked to a different file than the previous one.
In the previous one, the attack is also blocked when attempting to launch a script. I was just wondering why VoodooShield let cmd and powershell run without problems
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With the .lnk sample in this pack https://malwaretips.com/threads/27-7-17-13.73970/
linked to regsvr32.exe, VoodooShield immediatly blocks the command line. But it was linked to a different file than the previous one.
In the previous one, the attack is also blocked when attempting to launch a script. I was just wondering why VoodooShield let cmd and powershell run without problems
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Well, depending on your settings, CMD and PowerShell may be trusted apps and be allowed to run. The real problem is that VoodooShield let the lnk file execute and therefore open the mentioned programs.
 

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With the .lnk sample in this pack https://malwaretips.com/threads/27-7-17-13.73970/
linked to regsvr32.exe, VoodooShield immediatly blocks the command line. But it was linked to a different file than the previous one.
In the previous one, the attack is also blocked when attempting to launch a script. I was just wondering why VoodooShield let cmd and powershell run without problems
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Adding a password brother to VS, requires that when things like CMD, Services, Taskmanager, PowerShell ect.
that you enter the password that was set in VS settings, and is a good option, keeps VS on it's toes.
I have had this setting forever so if I get asked from my VS password to launch something like PowerShell and I did not initiate it
I for damn sure will not allow it to launch.
Some are not aware that VS does this when you add a PW to it.
 

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With the .lnk sample in this pack https://malwaretips.com/threads/27-7-17-13.73970/
linked to regsvr32.exe, VoodooShield immediatly blocks the command line. But it was linked to a different file than the previous one.
In the previous one, the attack is also blocked when attempting to launch a script. I was just wondering why VoodooShield let cmd and powershell run without problems
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I don't know why a file of unknown or untrusted status would be allowed to launch resources from the System Space. That's not a good policy. I hope this is a bug. Thank you for your testing!
 

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Cool, thank you MM! Yeah, VS protected the computer in both cases, but I agree, it would be even better to stop the powershell call, before it even had a chance to run the script.

This will be fixed in VS 4.0, which will be ready asap. The rules wizard is taking A LOT more time than I even thought it would, but I am getting close. Thank you guys!
 

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Adding a password brother to VS, requires that when things like CMD, Services, Taskmanager, PowerShell ect.
that you enter the password that was set in VS settings, and is a good option, keeps VS on it's toes.
I have had this setting forever so if I get asked from my VS password to launch something like PowerShell and I did not initiate it
I for damn sure will not allow it to launch.
Some are not aware that VS does this when you add a PW to it.


Good to know. Although I was hoping Appguard would take care of that one for me.
 

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Cool, thank you MM! Yeah, VS protected the computer in both cases, but I agree, it would be even better to stop the powershell call, before it even had a chance to run the script.

This will be fixed in VS 4.0, which will be ready asap. The rules wizard is taking A LOT more time than I even thought it would, but I am getting close. Thank you guys!
If I can remember well @danb , in the previous versions VoodooShield was blocking cmd.exe, powershell.exe, regedit.exe to launch when it was ON. Now, it's no longer doing that. Why?
 
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