Purple Fox EK Adds Microsoft Exploits to Arsenal


The Purple Fox exploit kit (EK) has added two new exploits targeting critical- and high-severity Microsoft vulnerabilities to its bag of tricks – and researchers say they expect more attacks to be added in the future.

The Purple Fox EK was previously analyzed in September, when researchers said that it appears to have been built to replace the Rig EK in the distribution chain of Purple Fox malware, which is a trojan/rootkit. The latest revision to the exploit kit has added attacks against flaws tracked as CVE-2020-0674 and CVE-2019-1458, which were first disclosed at the end of 2019 and early 2020. Purple Fox previously used exploits targeting older Microsoft flaws, including ones tracked as CVE-2018-8120 and CVE-2015-1701.

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Source: ThreatPost