Inside nls_933w.dll, the Equation APT Persistence Module

CANCUN – The names called out like beacons from the screen: Samsung; Seagate; Western Digital; Hitachi; Maxtor. Hardware makers were in the crosshairs of the Equation APT group and it was perhaps the worst possible scenario imagined by researchers looking at the frightening and extensive storehou...

Dshell - Network Forensic Analysis Framework

An extensible network forensic analysis framework. Enables rapid development of plugins to support the dissection of network packet captures. Key features: Robust stream reassembly IPv4 and IPv6 support Custom output handlers Chainable decoders Prerequisites Linux developed on Ubuntu 12.04 Python...

Dshell – Network Forensic Analysis Framework

Dshell An extensible network forensic analysis framework. Enables rapid development of plugins to support the dissection of network packet captures. Key features: Robust stream reassembly IPv4 and IPv6 support Custom output handlers Chainable decoders Prerequisites Linux developed on Ubuntu 12.04...

Parse Various Log Files: Plaso

Plaso is the Python based back-end engine used by tools such as log2timeline for automatic creation of a super timelines. The goal of log2timeline and thus plaso is to provide a single tool that can parse various log files and forensic artifacts from computers and related systems, such as network...

Smart Pentester - An SSH based Penetration Testing Framework

Smart Pentester is an SSH based Penetration Testing Framework. It provides a GUI for well known tools like nmap, hping, tcpdump, volatility, hydra and etc. Smart Pentester Framework will provide you a User Interface for Penetration testing, Malware Analysis, Forensic Analysis, Cyber Intelligence,...

Target Kill Chain Analysis

Last week, I talked with Wall Street Journal reporter Ben DiPietro about the persistent communications gap between the data center and the board room when it comes to recognizing and tackling security threats: In almost every breach situation after his company completes a forensic analysis, Mr...

FS-NyarL - Network Takeover & Forensic Analysis Tool

NyarL it's Nyarlathotep, a mitological chaotic deity of the writer HP. Lovecraft's cosmogony. It's represent Crawling Chaos and FS-NyarL it's The Crawling Chaos of Cyber Security :- A network takeover & forensic analysis tool - useful to advanced PenTest tasks & for fun and profit - but use it at...

[Xplico 1.1.0] Open Source Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT)

The goal of Xplico is extract from an internet traffic capture the applications data contained. For example, from a pcap file Xplico extracts each email POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocols, all HTTP contents, each VoIP call SIP, FTP, TFTP, and so on. Xplico isn’t a network protocol analyzer. Xplico is ...

[MoonSols] Windows Memory Toolkit

MoonSols Windows Memory Toolkit is a powerful toolkit containing all the utilities needed to perform any kind of memory acquisition or conversion during an incident response, or a forensic analysis for Windows desktops, servers or virtualized environment. The version 2.0 is a refresh and updated...

[Tor-ramdisk] Micro Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely host a Tor server purely in RAM

Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely host a Tor server purely in RAM. For those not familiar with Tor, it is a system which allows the user to construct encrypted virtual tunnels which are randomly relayed between Tor servers nodes until the...

[FS-NyarL] A network takeover & forensic analysis tool

NyarL it's Nyarlathotep, a mitological chaotic deity of the writer HP. Lovecraft's cosmogony. It's represent Crawling Chaos and FS-NyarL it's The Crawling Chaos of Cyber Security :- A network takeover & forensic analysis tool - useful to advanced PenTest tasks & for fun and profit - but use it at...

Apple Decrypts Seized iPhones For The Police

The security features built into Apple's iOS software are so good that the police are unable to gain access to defendant's iPhones when they need to. Companies like Apple and Google are being asked by law enforcement officials to bypass these protections to aid in investigations. Apple receives s...

Russian Police, Cybersecurity Company Arrest Cybercriminal

If you’ve ever sat in on a cybersecurity hearing on Capitol Hill or attended a security conference , then you’re no doubt familiar with the oft-preached need for information sharing and private-public partnerships. So frequently repeated are these refrains that they’re almost as meaningless as th...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : sleuthkit (MDVSA-2013:125)

Updated sleuthkit packages fix security vulnerabilities : A security flaw was found in the way the Sleuth Kit TSK, a collection of UNIX-based command line tools allowing to investigate a computer, performed management of '.' dotfile file system entry. An attacker could use this flaw to evade...

[REMnux] A Linux Distribution for Malware Analysis

REMnux incorporates a number of tools for analyzing malicious executables that run on Microsoft Windows, as well as browser-based malware, such as Flash programs and obfuscated JavaScript. This popular toolkit includes programs for analyzing malicious documents, such PDF files, and utilities for...

[NetworkMiner v1.4.1] Network Forensic Analysis Tool (NFAT)

NetworkMiner is a Network Forensic Analysis Tool NFAT for Windows but also works in Linux / Mac OS X / FreeBSD. NetworkMiner can be used as a passive network sniffer/packet capturing tool in order to detect operating systems, sessions, hostnames, open ports etc. without putting any traffic on the...

Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu

Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...

Serco: 'Sophisticated' Attack On U.S. Govt. Pension Plan Nets Info On 123k

Serco Inc., a well-known contractor working with the U.S. government, announced that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that exposed data on 123,000 civil employees of the Federal government and their families, including names, addresses and social security numbers taken from the company...

FOCA PRO 3.1 and MetaShield Protector Released

FOCA PRO 3.1 and MetaShield Protector Released Forensic FOCA New latest version of FOCA announced today, in this case a Forensic FOCA. This tool is specially created for forensic analyst, allowing them to crawl metadata from files and to create a powerful time-line of metadata. This information...

Court Ruling: Forced Decryption Violates the Fifth, Sometimes

The Eleventh Circuit of the US Court of Appeals recently handed down a landmark ruling, establishing a precedent under which the contents of an encrypted hard-drive are protected by the Fifth Amendment’s ban on self-incrimination. Briefly, the facts of the case are these: John Doe is suspected of...