Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Suspicious IP Addresses Avoided by Malware Samples“: Modern malware samples implement a lot of anti-debugging and anti-analysis techniques. The idea is to slow down the malware analyst’s job or, more simply, to bypass security solutions like sandboxes. These days, I see more and more malware
Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Deobfuscation of Malware Delivered Through a .bat File“: I found a phishing email that delivered a RAR archive (password protected). Inside the archive, there was a simple .bat file (SHA256: 57ebd5a707eb69dd719d461e1fbd14f98a42c6c3dcb8505e4669c55762810e70) with the following name: “SRI DISTRITAL – DPTO DE COBRO -SRI
I’m back from Lille, France, where I attended the sixth edition of the conference called “Pass The Salt“. This event focuses on security but around free software. Vendors are not welcome to promote their solutions! Christophe from the crew introduced the event. Basically, it remains the same: a lot of
Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “The Importance of Malware Triage“: When dealing with malware analysis, you like to get “fresh meat”. Just for hunting purposes or when investigating incidents in your organization, it’s essential to have a triage process to reduce the noise and focus on really
A quick wrap-up of the last edition of BSides Athens that occurred yesterday, Saturday 24th. I really like this event for multiple reasons. First, the atmosphere, I’ve plenty of Greek friends and I like this country… and food! This was already the 8th edition and full in person! They reached
Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malicious Code Can Be Anywhere“: My Python hunting rules reported some interesting/suspicious files. The files are named with a “.ma” extension. Some of them have very low VT scores. For example, the one with a SHA256 dc16115d165a8692e6f3186afd28694ddf2efe7fd3e673bd90690f2ae7d59136 has a score of 15/59.
Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malware Delivered Through .inf File“: Microsoft has used “.inf” files for a while. They are simple text files and contain setup information in a driver package. They describe what must be performed to install a driver package on a device. When you
Yesterday, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Undetected PowerShell Backdoor Disguised as a Profile File“: PowerShell remains an excellent way to compromise computers. Many PowerShell scripts found in the wild are usually obfuscated. Most of the time, this helps to have the script detected by fewer antivirus vendors. Yesterday,
It’s already the third and last day… Always a strange atmosphere after the gala dinner, and people are always joining late. It’s also challenging to be the first speakers! Ronan Mouchoux and François Moerman presented «From Words to Intelligence: Leveraging the Cyber Operation Constraint Principle, Natural Language Understanding, and Association
And we are still in Strasbourg! The second day started with « From GhostNet to PseudoManuscrypt » by Jorge Rodriguez & Souhail Hammou. PseudoManuscrypt is a recent RAT spotted by Kaspersky in July 2021. It is widely distributed by fake applications, websites and malware loaders. It’s a fork of Gh0st RAT. This
