full-disclosure - Re: DLL Hijacking Against Installers In Browser Download Folders for Phish and Profit

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Message-ID: <CAD6s_XshssVh2En+yfcyWeaw_D_On11OQcqGSrR3L3dfm=Fecg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:02:10 +0200
From: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com>
To: Gynvael Coldwind <gynvael@...dwind.pl>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: DLL Hijacking Against Installers In Browser
 Download Folders for Phish and Profit

I've got two concerns about this:

1. Either way you put it, I can't see how one can make a convincing
argument out of downloading a DLL file.
Asking laymen, they'd ask "what's a dll for? weren't updates done with
exe/msi/etc? why's it got that funny icon?"

2. I'm a bit curious about your choice of code, and why you commented out
exit(0); (what's the point anyway?)

Cheers,
Chris.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Gynvael Coldwind <gynvael@...dwind.pl>wrote:

> Well, what can I say - your write up is accurate.
>
> Though last time I've seen it, around 5 years ago, it was still called
> DLL spoofing and not DLL hijacking, and was one of the arguments why
> "carpet bombing" (automatic download) in Safair/Chrome must be fixed
> :)
> E.g. http://gynvael.coldwind.pl/?id=55
>
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