This is a guest post by a young and talented Portuguese exploiter, Federico Bento. He won this year’s Pwnie for Epic Achievement exploiting TIOCSTI ioctl. Days ago he posted a video demonstrating an exploit for CVE-2017-5123 and luckly for you I managed to convince him to do a write-up about it. I hope you enjoy his work. Thanks Federico! ...
Disclaimer: This malware sample is not in any way related to Hacking Team (as far as I know) other than me making some jokes about them related to a future presentation about their OS X malware product. Two months ago (maybe three) I started noticing a sporadic redirect when I accessed these blog pages. It wasn’t anything “malicious” as far as I could evaluate; just a redirect to adult friend finder site....