Static Source Code Analysis and Web Application Security

What is Malvertising?

Malvertising, or malicious online advertising, is the term used to describe a technique used by Hackers that embed malicious code with legitimate advertisements. These malicious advertisements usually lead to harmful or deceptive content, which directly infects a victim's PC with malware (malicious software). Malware may result in theft of sensitive data such as personal information, banking details or unauthorized access to the victim's PC.

Malvertising provides hackers with an opportunity to infect viewers of high-profile, reputable websites with malware without the need to bypass website security solutions or trick website viewers into clicking on links to external domains. Malicious Ads may targets specific demographics or geographical regions. Once introduced into the advertising network ecosystem these malicious ads frequently go undiscovered are traded, bought and sold throughout the ad networks, making discovery and tracking of an Malvertising incident very difficult.

What is HackAlert™ - SafeImpression?

HackAlert™ SafeImpression is a new product line extension of HackAlert™, which is targeted specifically at detecting malicious advertising (also known as malvertising). Based on technology advancements and real world experiences with HackAlert™, SafeImpression incorporates static analysis, behavioral analysis, and our own reputation database collected over many years of real time scanning with HackAlert™ over hundred thousands of popular domains worldwide.

SafeImpression detects and safeguards both ad networks and publishers from delivering malvertising. Unique to Armorize, SafeImpression analyzes not only the ad tags, but also the creative and the actual impressions served. This insures that the creative is authentic and unaltered, and the impressions seen by different viewers are actual safe impressions.

Like HackAlert™, SafeImpression is available as an on-demand SaaS service to publishers. It is highly scalable and can also be adopted by ad networks and ad exchanges to provide safer, higher quality ad inventory.