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WAF Defense in Crisis? NSFOCUS Locks Down “Ghost Bits” Attacks in Advance

NSFOCUS Security Labs
NSFOCUS Security Labs
Published April 30, 2026Original Report

Malware Families

Excerpt

Incident Review In April 2026, Black Hat Asia 2026 disclosed a systematic security threat named Ghost Bits , targeting underlying encoding flaws in the Java ecosystem that can render mainstream WAF/IDS defenses completely ineffective. The core of this risk lies in inconsistent encoding interpretations of the same input between the security detection chain and the application execution chain, which may result in the frontline protection judging the input as harmless while the…

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Diamond Model

SOCIAL AXISTECHNOLOGY AXISADVERSARYunknownINFRASTRUCTUREunknownCAPABILITYGh0st RATVICTIMunknown
Adversary
Infrastructure
Capability(1)
Victim

Attack Flow4 steps · MITRE ATT&CK mapped

Defense EvasionTA0005T1027
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Obfuscated Files or Information
ActionObfuscate attack payload characters
Attackers craft Unicode characters whose lower 8 bits match critical ASCII characters in attack payloads, making them appear harmless to WAFs.

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2 indicators

TypeIndicatorConfidenceScoreFirst Seen
CVECVE-2024-36401MediumScore 54/100First seen
CVECVE-2022-22965MediumScore 51/100First seen

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