New 'Lord' Exploit Kit Emerges

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A newly identified exploit kit is targeting vulnerable versions of Adobe's Flash Player, Malwarebytes security researchers say.
 
Dubbed “Lord,” the exploit kit (EK) was initially identified by Virus Bulletin‘s Adrian Luca. The toolkit emerged as part of a malvertising chain via the PopCash ad network.
 
The EK uses a compromised website to redirect unsuspecting victims to its landing page. Initially, the portal was rather rudimentary and in clear text, but the toolkit operators quickly moved to obfuscate it. 
 
The landing page has a function to check for the presence of Flash Player, in an attempt to exploit the CVE-2018-15982 vulnerability. 
The landing also collects information on the victim’s system, such as Flash Player and various network attributes.
 
One thing that sets the Lord EK apart from other toolkits is the use of the ngrok service to craft custom hostnames, which resulted in rather unusual URLs. 
 
“This is rather unusual at least from what we have observed with exploit kits in recent history. As per ngrok’s documentation, it exposes a local server to the public internet. The free version of ngrok generates random subomains which is almost perfect (and reminds us of Domain Shadowing) for the exploit kit author,” Malwarebytes notes. 

SOURCE: https://www.securityweek.com/new-lord-ex...it-emerges