Blackhole is like most other malware and exploit packs, it spreads over iframe and it executes a downloaded payload. ESET Threat blog in this post, but now there is a brand new used vulnerability : CVE-2012-0507. CVE-2012-0507 is an interesting vulnerability found in the Java AtomicReferenceArray class implementation, which wasn’t checking properly whether the array was of an appropriate Object[] type. A malicious Java applet could use this flaw to bypass Java sandbox restrictions in order to execute malicious code outside of sandbox.
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The infection goes on following these steps: