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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 778948" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>I found some interesting statistics from Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (industry and organizations):</p><p><a href="https://www.verizonenterprise.com/resources/reports/rp_DBIR_2018_Report_en_xg.pdf" target="_blank">2018 Data Breach Investigations Report | Verizon Enterprise Solutions</a></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]202341[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Over 90% of malware files were delivered by email.</p><p>About 60% of malware files were delivered as Windows scripts, near 20% by documents (MS Office, PDF), and 15% by Windows executables.</p><p>"<em> JavaScript (.js), Visual Basic Script (.vbs), MS Office and PDF tend to be the file types found in first-stage malware. They’re what sneaks in the door. They then drop the second-stage malware</em>."</p><p>"And many of the PDFs were just a vehicle for a macro-enabled Office document, embedded within."</p><p></p><p>The above statistic shows, why blocking the Windows scripts is so important. Most MS Office documents also use Windows scripts to download the executable payloads. If the scripts are blocked, then most executable payloads cannot infect the system. That is important because, those payloads would be usually ignored by SmartScreen, and some could be also not detected by WD (fresh malware samples).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 778948, member: 32260"] I found some interesting statistics from Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (industry and organizations): [URL='https://www.verizonenterprise.com/resources/reports/rp_DBIR_2018_Report_en_xg.pdf']2018 Data Breach Investigations Report | Verizon Enterprise Solutions[/URL] [ATTACH=full]202341[/ATTACH] Over 90% of malware files were delivered by email. About 60% of malware files were delivered as Windows scripts, near 20% by documents (MS Office, PDF), and 15% by Windows executables. "[I] JavaScript (.js), Visual Basic Script (.vbs), MS Office and PDF tend to be the file types found in first-stage malware. They’re what sneaks in the door. They then drop the second-stage malware[/I]." "And many of the PDFs were just a vehicle for a macro-enabled Office document, embedded within." The above statistic shows, why blocking the Windows scripts is so important. Most MS Office documents also use Windows scripts to download the executable payloads. If the scripts are blocked, then most executable payloads cannot infect the system. That is important because, those payloads would be usually ignored by SmartScreen, and some could be also not detected by WD (fresh malware samples). [/QUOTE]
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