Re: Obfuscated web pages

Ivan Arce <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids
Organization Core Security Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
aha!

Theoretical DOM inspectors may work in theory-land but it is unlikely 
they'd work in in real world.

Besides that, let's focus back on the original question:

If there anything that successfully detects/prevents *obfuscated* 
malicious web content from executing at the endpoint?

Not as far as I know, although there are endpoint security product that 
address this issue I don't have an answer as to how accurate or effective 
they are.

Regarding the hypothetical Checkpoint IPS-1 (formerly NFR) approach:

Do you really think that writing a JavaScript interpreter in N-code and 
running it inline is a plausible solution?

-ivan

Mike Barkett wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> On Behalf Of Gary Flynn
>> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:18 PM
>>
>> I suspect that no vendors support this feature ( actual code
>> execution in some sort of sandbox ) and I was just trying to
>> verify it.
>>
> 
> Gary - Actually, the Check Point IPS-1 (formerly NFR) sensor engine has, for
> many years, executed protections in a "sandbox" so that no single protection
> can dominate the processor(s).  So, if someone were to write N-code to try
> to interpret generalized code, it would operate in that same sandbox, for
> lack of a better term.  This even applies inline.  However, just to be
> clear, off the shelf, IPS-1 does not do any of the theoretical DOM
> validation stuff previously mentioned in this thread.
> 
> 
> -MAB
> 
> --
> Michael A Barkett, CISSP
> IPS Security Engineering Director
> Check Point Software Technologies
> +1.240.632.9000 Fax: +1.240.747.3512
> 
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