A technical analysis of the SALTWATER backdoor used in Barracuda 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-2868) exploitation
Summary SALTWATER is a backdoor that has been used in the exploitation of the Barracuda 0-day vulnerability CVE-2023-2868. It is a module for the Barracuda SMTP daemon called bsmtpd. The malware hooked the recv, send, and close functions using an open-source hooking library called funchook. The following functionalities are implemented: execute arbitrary commands, download and […]