I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Sextortion to The Next Level“: For a long time, our mailboxes are flooded with emails from “hackers†(note the quotes) who pretend to have infected our computers with malware. The scenario is always the same: They successfully collected sensitive pieces of evidence about
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malicious Excel Delivering Fileless Payload“: Macros in Office documents are so common today that my honeypots and hunting scripts catch a lot of them daily. I try to keep an eye on them because sometimes you can spot an interesting one (read: “using a less common
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Anti-Debugging JavaScript Techniques“: For developers who write malicious programs, it’s important to make their code not easy to be read and executed in a sandbox. Like most languages, there are many ways to make the life of malware analysts mode difficult (or more
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Anti-Debugging Technique based on Memory Protection“: Many modern malware samples implement defensive techniques. First of all, we have to distinguish sandbox-evasion and anti-debugging techniques. Today, sandboxes are an easy and quick way to categorize samples based on their behavior. Malware developers have plenty
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Flashback on CVE-2019-19781“: First of all, did you know that the Flame malware turned 8 years today! Happy Birthday! This famous malware discovered was announced on May 28th, 2012. The malware was used for targeted cyber espionage activities in the Middle East area.
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “AgentTesla Delivered via a Malicious PowerPoint Add-In“: Attackers are always trying to find new ways to deliver malicious code to their victims. Microsoft Word and Excel are documents that can be easily weaponized by adding malicious VBA macros. Today, they are one of
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malware Triage with FLOSS: API Calls Based Behavior“: Malware triage is a key component of your hunting process. When you collect suspicious files from multiple sources, you need a tool to automatically process them to extract useful information. To achieve this task, I’m using
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Using Nmap As a Lightweight Vulnerability Scanner“: Yesterday, Bojan wrote a nice diary about the power of the Nmap scripting language (based on LUA). The well-known port scanner can be extended with plenty of scripts that are launched depending on the detected ports.
I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Keeping an Eye on Malicious Files Life Time“: We know that today’s malware campaigns are based on fresh files. Each piece of malware has a unique hash and it makes the detection based on lists of hashes not very useful these days. But
When you need to quickly investigate a suspicious computer located thousands of kilometers away or during a pandemic like we are facing these days, it could be critical to gain remote access to the computer. Just to perform basic investigations. Also, if the attacker did a clever job, he could
