Domain Names

Domain Names can be thought as simply mapping an IP address to a string of text. Domain Names can be a little more of a pain for the attacker to change as they would most likely need to purchase the domain, register it and modify DNS records. Unfortunately for defenders, many DNS providers have loose standards and provide APIs to make it even easier for the attacker to change the domain.

Punycode attack attack

Punycode is a way of converting words that cannot be written in ASCII, into a Unicode ASCII encoding.

Ex: adıdas.de which has the Punycode of http://xn--addas-o4a.de/

URL shortener is used in phishing. To reveal the actual website, you can add ’+’ at the end of the tiny URL or use this site:

Tool tool

Any.run is a sandboxing service that executes the sample, we can review any connections such as HTTP requests, DNS requests or processes communicating with an IP address.