Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2013-3487 |
Date Published: | 27 Oct 2013 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Sunday 11 October, 2015 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2007-5659 CVE-2008-2992 CVE-2009-0927 CVE-2009-4324 CVE-2010-0188 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | BlackHole is a web exploit kit that operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim's computer. Remote attackers can infect users with BlackHole by enticing them to visit a malicious web page. Successful infection will allow the attacker to download additional malware to the target. |
This protection will detect and block BlackHole infection attempts at the Adobe Reader payload stage.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Exploit Kit.
Attack Information: BlackHole Toolkit v2 Adobe Reader Payload Stage Code Execution