A Peek Inside the ‘Eleonore’ Browser Exploit Kit
Summary: A working installation of the Eleonore exploit kit, version 1.3.2, was linked to several adult Web sites and probed visitors' browsers for known vulnerabilities, attacking several Adobe Reader flaws including one Adobe patched that month, at least two Internet Explorer bugs, a Java bug, and two Firefox vulnerabilities from 2005 and 2006. The kit's administration page showed the Java exploit was the second most successful attack behind one targeting at least three Adobe Reader flaws, and some of the highest success rates came from vulnerabilities patched well before the article was published in January 2010.
Bottom line: The kit's own statistics showed old, long-patched vulnerabilities still converting visitors at high rates, so a browser or plug-in left a few versions behind was the exposure that mattered, not the newest headline flaw.
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