Archie Exploit Kit Targets Adobe, Silverlight Vulnerabilities

by Chris Brook    September 16, 2014

A relatively new exploit kit that borrows modules copied from the Metasploit Framework and exploits any older versions of Adobe Flash, Reader and, Silverlight the user may be using has begun to make the rounds.

Jaime Blasco, the director of AlienVault Labs dug deeper into kit, known as Archie, on the company’s blog yesterday.

First discovered by EmergingThreats in August, Archie is apparently one of the more basic exploit kits on the market.

“When the victim lands on the main page, Archie uses the PluginDetect Javascript library to extract information,” Blasco says, regarding Archie’s functionality.

In addition to Flash and Reader, the kit also checks victims’ machines to see if its running a 64-bit version of Internet Explorer.
 
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