Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Technical analysis. This file acts as downloader in the infection chain, using a series of hard-coded server addresses, It heavily rely on obfuscation and encryption to avoid the antimalware detection. Shade encrypts all the user files using an AES encryption scheme. References to an Oil-Gas company.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This post provides an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. first post.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

This post provides an in-depth analysis of the inner workings of Gooligan, the infamous Android OAuth stealing botnet. This file is encrypted with a hardcoded [XOR encryption] function. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. first post.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Malware Analysis Sandboxes could expose sensitive data of your organization. A backdoor mechanism found in tens of Ruby libraries. Once again thank you!

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

and the analysis of. The second post provides an in-depth analysis of Gooligan’s inner workings and an analysis of its network infrastructure. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. Quite a few of our most successful research projects started due to these escalations, including our work on.

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Elie

MARCH 10, 2018

and the analysis of. provides an in-depth analysis of Gooligan’s inner workings and an analysis of its network infrastructure. This APK embedded a secondary hidden/encrypted payload. Play Store app module : This is an injected library that allows the malware to issue commands to the Play store through the Play store app.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important. The post Application modernization overview appeared first on IBM Blog.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Technical Analysis. The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem. Further data, including IoCs and Yara rules, decide in the report published on the Yoroi blog. dll” and “D93C2D64.dll”.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is a blog post for advanced users with binary analysis experience. Non-glibc C standard library. For this blog post we will be looking at the Netgear N300 (henceforth referred to as DGN2200v4) router firmware image. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. And even fewer of them have ever been fuzzed.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This is a blog post for advanced users with binary analysis experience. Non-glibc C standard library. For this blog post we will be looking at the Netgear N300 (henceforth referred to as DGN2200v4) router firmware image. Uses uClibc instead of glibc C standard library. And even fewer of them have ever been fuzzed.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2019

For instance, the latest waves increased their target selectivity abilities by implementing various country-checks and their anti-analysis capabilities through heavy code obfuscation. Technical Analysis. This layer is quite different because it contains a junk-char enriched hexadecimal code, actually XOR encrypted with the 0x52 key.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2019

For more details on this finding see the Technical Analysis below. Technical Analysis. However, as already mentioned at the beginning of the technical analysis, SI-LAB team obtained two types of files, namely xls and doc archives. dll library). Figure 27: First stage of RAT builts IAT and load some libraries (kernel32.dll

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2019

That file was delivered via malscam campaigns around the world and its source-code is obfuscated in order to evade antivirus detection and complicate its analysis. For more details and complete analysis of this malicious campaign see the Technical Analysis below. Technical Analysis. EMOTET drops a sqlite3.dll

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IT Governance

JANUARY 10, 2022

The tech giant disclosed four zero-day bugs, which were being used to steal sensitive information, encrypt data for ransom and execute destructive attacks. Analysis from its real-time anti-phishing protection system found that cyber criminals increasingly targeted people who were searching for holidays and weekend breaks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2021

This piece of malware is focused on stealing banking credentials and victim’s secrets using different techniques tactics and procedures (TTP) which have evolved over the years, including its delivery mechanisms, C2 techniques, and anti-analysis and reversing features. Figure 12: Souce code available on the revealed Sheets.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Latin American trojans share the same modus operandi and even modules and blocks of code observed during the analysis of several malware samples. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY. dll: Windows legitimate DLL for runtime dependencies – MICROSOFT® C RUNTIME LIBRARY.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2021

So many readers had questions in response to the tweet that I thought it was worth a blog post exploring this one weird cyber defense trick. In a message posted to its victim shaming blog, DarkSide tried to say it was “apolitical” and that it didn’t wish to participate in geopolitics.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2020

Today I want to contribute to such a blog-roll analyzing a new spreading variant that hit my observatory. The following VBScript is run through cscript.exe, It’s an obfuscated and xor-encrypted payload. Following few of them that I believe would be a nice reading: New Cyber Attack Campaign Leverages the COVID-19 Infodemic.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2020

Our analysis of the phishing email of this new campaign detected at the end of June – July 2020 showed that the template is very similar to the template distributed on May 8th, 2020. VBS file leverages the Windows rundll32 library to inject the first DLL into memory (P-14-7.dll), Deofuscation and renaming VBS calls. .–create

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

And modern fuzzers are not random, they’re guided so they dynamically work their way through the code, increasing their code coverage to find unknown vulnerabilities that can escape other software testing such as static analysis. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

And modern fuzzers are not random, they’re guided so they dynamically work their way through the code, increasing their code coverage to find unknown vulnerabilities that can escape other software testing such as static analysis. Not only do I get a much faster time to market, I don’t have to worry about rolling my own encryption.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

How better key management can close cloud security gaps troubling US government madhav Thu, 02/29/2024 - 05:38 In my first blog on this topic I noted a Treasury Department report released last year listed six cloud security challenges financial sector firms face. Thales offers vendor-independent encryption and key management services.

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Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

Technical Analysis. Once run, it starts the encryption of all the victim’s files, except for the system and programs folders: “Program Files” , “Program Files (x86)” , “Windows”. Actions during encryption phase. Unlike most ransomware, LooCipher uses a macro-weaponized document as dropper of the real threat. Macro code.

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