---
id: 3801
title: "Analyzing the MD5 collision in Flame"
source_domain: blog.trailofbits.com
source_url: "https://blog.trailofbits.com/2012/06/11/analyzing-the-md5-collision-in-flame/"
published_at: "2012-06-11T19:59:47Z"
tags: ["malware", "cryptography", "flame", "md5", "collision-attack", "windows-update"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3801"
lang: en
---

# Analyzing the MD5 collision in Flame

## Summary

Trail of Bits analyzes the MD5 collision attack Flame used to spread via Windows Update — the first in-the-wild use of this technique — authored by Alex Sotirov of the 2008 collision research team.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.trailofbits.com
- **Published:** 2012-06-11T19:59:47Z
- **Original:** https://blog.trailofbits.com/2012/06/11/analyzing-the-md5-collision-in-flame/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3801