FireEye has discovered a campaign leveraging the recently announced zero-day CVE-2013-3893. This campaign, which we have labeled 'Operation DeputyDog', began as early as August 19, 2013 and appears to have targeted organizations in Japan. FireEye Labs has been continuously monitoring the activities of the threat actor responsible for this campaign. Analysis based on our Dynamic Threat Intelligence cluster shows that this current campaign leveraged command and control infrastructure that is related to the infrastructure used in the attack on Bit9.
via Operation DeputyDog: Zero-Day (CVE-2013-3893) Attack Against Japanese Targets | FireEye Blog.
FireEye did a part II as well:
Operation
DeputyDog Part 2: Zero-Day Exploit Analysis
(CVE-2013-3893)
In our previous blog post my colleagues Ned and Nart provided a detailed analysis on the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Campaign Operation DeputyDog. The campaign leveraged a zero-day vulnerability of Microsoft Internet Explorer (CVE-2013-3893). Microsoft provided an advisory and 'Fix it' blog post.
I am happy to announce that Xiaobo Chen, a well-known security researcher, has recently joined FireEye Labs. We worked together on the analysis of this zero-day vulnerability. In this blog, we will provide a deep dive on the exploitation part of the campaign.
Despite the targeted nature of these attacks, the exploit identifies numerous language packs (en, zh, fr, de, ja, pt, ko, ru) and software versions, which is uses to specify the correct ROP chain. Commented-out code suggests that the exploit initially targeted IE8 XP users, and IE8 and IE9 Windows 7 users who also had MS Office 2007 installed. In our tests, we observed that the exploit ran successfully on systems running both MS Office 2007 and 2010.