full-disclosure - DLL hijacking with ZIP files in email?

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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:05:00 +1000
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: DLL hijacking with ZIP files in email?

The essence of DLL hijacking is to deliver an innocent file together
with a malicious DLL, in the one directory. Would it be possible to do
this via email: a ZIP (or similar) archive containing the two files?

Thoughts about this? I know that an emailed ZIP is searcheable by
desktop AV systems; but the signature-based AVs forever play catch-up
with the attacks in the wild.

Cheers, Paul

Paul Szabo   psz@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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