Analyzing Dark Crystal RAT, a C# Backdoor

The FireEye Mandiant Threat Intelligence Team helps protect our customers by tracking cyber attackers and the malware they use. The FLARE Team helps augment our threat intelligence by reverse engineering malware samples. Recently, FLARE worked on a new C variant of Dark Crystal RAT DCRat that the...

Microsoft researchers work with Intel Labs to explore new deep learning approaches for malware classification

The opportunities for innovative approaches to threat detection through deep learning, a category of algorithms within the larger framework of machine learning, are vast. Microsoft Threat Protection today uses multiple deep learning-based classifiers that detect advanced threats, for example,...

INTERCEPT - Policy As Code Static Analysis Auditing

Stupidly easy to use, small footprint Policy as Code subsecond command-line scanner that leverages the power of the fastest multi-line search tool to scan your codebase. It can be used as a linter, guard rail control or simple data collector and inspector. Consider it a weaponized ripgrep. Works ...

Inhale - A Malware Analysis And Classification Tool

Inhale is a malware analysis and classification tool that is capable of automating and scaling many static analysis operations. This is the beta release version, for testing purposes, feedback, and community development. Background Inhale started as a series of small scripts that I used when...

CVE-2020-5252

The command-line "safety" package for Python has a potential security issue. There are two Python characteristics that allow malicious code to “poison-pill” command-line Safety package detection routines by disguising, or obfuscating, other malicious or non-secure packages. This vulnerability is...

CVE-2020-5252

The command-line "safety" package for Python has a potential security issue. There are two Python characteristics that allow malicious code to “poison-pill” command-line Safety package detection routines by disguising, or obfuscating, other malicious or non-secure packages. This vulnerability is...

Design/Logic Flaw

The command-line "safety" package for Python has a potential security issue. There are two Python characteristics that allow malicious code to “poison-pill” command-line Safety package detection routines by disguising, or obfuscating, other malicious or non-secure packages. This vulnerability is...

CVE-2020-5252

The command-line "safety" package for Python has a potential security issue. There are two Python characteristics that allow malicious code to “poison-pill” command-line Safety package detection routines by disguising, or obfuscating, other malicious or non-secure packages. This vulnerability is...

CVE-2020-5252

CVE-2020-5252 concerns the command-line Python package Safety. Reports describe a low-severity issue where two Python-related characteristics permit a malicious package to poison-pill or obfuscate other packages, allowing bypass of Safety’s detection routines. This is said to occur when Safety ru...

CVE-2020-5252 Malicious package may avoid detection in python auditing

The command-line "safety" package for Python has a potential security issue. There are two Python characteristics that allow malicious code to “poison-pill” command-line Safety package detection routines by disguising, or obfuscating, other malicious or non-secure packages. This vulnerability is...

Updated mbedtls packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated mbedtls packages fix security vulnerabilities: If Mbed TLS is running in an SGX enclave and the adversary has control of the main operating system, they can launch a side channel attack to recover the RSA private key when it is being imported. Found by Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya and Billy...

Introduction and Application of Model Hacking

ARCHIVED STORY Introduction and Application of Model Hacking By Steve Povolny · Febraury 19, 2020 Catherine Huang, Ph.D., and Shivangee Trivedi contributed to this blog. The term “Adversarial Machine Learning” AML is a mouthful! The term describes a research field regarding the study and design o...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8432

In Das U-Boot through 2020.01, a double free has been found in the cmd/gpt.c dorenamegptparts function. Double freeing may result in a write-what-where condition, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code. NOTE: this vulnerablity was introduced when attempting to fix a memory leak identified...

CVE-2020-8432

In Das U-Boot through 2020.01, a double free has been found in the cmd/gpt.c dorenamegptparts function. Double freeing may result in a write-what-where condition, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code. NOTE: this vulnerablity was introduced when attempting to fix a memory leak identified...

ApplicationInspector - A Source Code Analyzer Built For Surfacing Features Of Interest And Other Characteristics To Answer The Question 'What'S In It' Using Static Analysis With A Json Based Rules Engine

Microsoft Application Inspector is a software source code analysis tool that helps identify and surface well-known features and other interesting characteristics of source code to aid in determining what the software is or what it does. Application Inspector is different from traditional static...

Introducing Microsoft Application Inspector

Modern software development practices often involve building applications from hundreds of existing components, whether they’re written by another team in your organization, an external vendor, or someone in the open source community. Reuse has great benefits, including time-to-market, quality, a...

Karonte - A Static Analysis Tool To Detect Multi-Binary Vulnerabilities In Embedded Firmware

Karonte is a static analysis tool to detect multi-binary vulnerabilities in embedded firmware. Research paper We present our approach and the findings of this work in the following research paper: KARONTE: Detecting Insecure Multi-binary Interactions in Embedded Firmware PDF Nilo Redini, Aravind...

XSpear v1.3 - Powerfull XSS Scanning And Parameter Analysis Tool

XSpear is XSS Scanner on ruby gems Key features Pattern matching based XSS scanning Detect alert confirm prompt event on headless browser with Selenium Testing request/response for XSS protection bypass and reflectedor all params Reflected Params All paramsfor blind xss, anytings Filtered test...

How to Fine-Tune Static Code Analysis - Part 2

RIPS performs language-specific code analysis. Each of our unique analysis engines is dedicated to a different programming language. You can get the maximum out of static analysis if you further fine-tune our language-specific engines to your specific code features. In the following, we guide you...

RetDec - A Retargetable Machine-Code Decompiler Based On LLVM

RetDec is a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM. The decompiler is not limited to any particular target architecture, operating system, or executable file format: Supported file formats: ELF, PE, Mach-O, COFF, AR archive, Intel HEX, and raw machine code Supported architectures:...