Announcing the Fourth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The fourth annual Flare-On Challenge – the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team’s yearly reverse engineering contest – is scheduled to kick off on Sept. 1, 2017, at 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security...

The Windows Malware Analysis Distribution: flare-vm

FLARE VM is a freely available and open sourced Windows-based security distribution designed for reverse engineers, malware analysts, incident responders, forensicators, and penetration testers. Inspired by open-source Linux-based security distributions like Kali Linux, REMnux and others, FLARE V...

FLARE VM: The Windows Malware Analysis Distribution You’ve Always Needed!

As a reverse engineer on the FLARE Team I rely on a customized Virtual Machine VM to perform malware analysis. The Virtual Machine is a Windows installation with numerous tweaks and tools to aid my analysis. Unfortunately trying to maintain a custom VM like this is very laborious: tools frequentl...

FLARE VM: The Windows Malware Analysis Distribution You’ve Always Needed!

UPDATE 2 Nov. 14, 2018: FLARE VM now has a new installation, upgrade, and uninstallation process, and also includes many new tools such as IDA 7.0, radare and YARA. UPDATE April 26, 2018: The web installer method to deploy FLARE VM is now deprecated. Please refer to the README on the FLARE VM...

No Free Pass for ExPetr

Recently, there have been discussions around the topic that if our product is installed, ExPetr malware won't write the special malicious code which encrypts the MFT to MBR. Some have even speculated that some kind of conspiracy might be ongoing. Others have pointed out it's plain and simple...

Introducing Linux Support for FakeNet-NG: FLARE’s Next Generation Dynamic Network Analysis Tool

Introduction In 2016, FLARE introduced FakeNet-NG, an open-source network analysis tool written in Python. FakeNet-NG allows security analysts to observe and interact with network applications using standard or custom protocols on a single Windows host, which is especially useful for malware...

EternalPetya – yet another stolen piece in the package?

Since June 27th we have been investigating the outbreak of the new Petya-like malware armed with an infector similar to WannaCry. Since day one, various contradicting theories started popping up. Some believed that this malware is a rip-off of the original Petya, while others think that it is...

CVE-2017-9778

GNU Debugger GDB 8.0 and earlier fails to detect a negative length field in a DWARF section. A malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can cause GDB to repeatedly allocate memory until a process limit is reached. This can, for example, impede efforts to analyze malware with GDB...

CVE-2017-9778

GNU Debugger GDB 8.0 and earlier fails to detect a negative length field in a DWARF section. A malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can cause GDB to repeatedly allocate memory until a process limit is reached. This can, for example, impede efforts to analyze malware with GDB...

Design/Logic Flaw

GNU Debugger GDB 8.0 and earlier fails to detect a negative length field in a DWARF section. A malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can cause GDB to repeatedly allocate memory until a process limit is reached. This can, for example, impede efforts to analyze malware with GDB...

CVE-2017-9778

GNU Debugger GDB 8.0 and earlier fails to detect a negative length field in a DWARF section. A malformed section in an ELF binary or a core file can cause GDB to repeatedly allocate memory until a process limit is reached. This can, for example, impede efforts to analyze malware with GDB...

CVE-2017-9778

CVE-2017-9778 affects GNU Debugger (GDB) 8.0 and earlier. A malformed DWARF/ELF section can cause GDB to repeatedly allocate memory, potentially exhausting process limits and hindering malware analysis. Connected sources confirm the vulnerability in GDB’s handling of DWARF sections in ELF binarie...

QuickSand.io - Tool For Scanning Streams Within Office Documents Plus Xor DB Attack

QuickSand is a compact C framework to analyze suspected malware documents to 1 identify exploits in streams of different encodings, 2 locate and extract embedded executables. By having the ability to locate embedded obfuscated executables, QuickSand could detect documents that contain zero-day or...

Malware Network Communication Provides Better Early Warning Signal

Research is expected to be unveiled today that challenges the industry’s current reliance on dynamic malware analysis as the best means of early detection of infections. Instead, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the IMDEA Software Institute and EURECOM posit that a better...

Visual Malware Analysis: ProcDOT

Visual Malware Analysis There are plenty of tools for behavioral malware analysis. The defacto standard ones, though, are Sysinternals’s Process Monitor also known as Procmon and PCAP generating network sniffers like Windump, Tcpdump, Wireshark, and the like. These “two” tools cover almost...

SA148: Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Feb-Apr 2017

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products that include a vulnerable version of the Linux kernel are susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities. A remote attacker, with access to the management interface, can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code. The attacker can also cause deni...

Open Source Malware Analysis Platform: FAME

Open Source Malware Analysis Platform FAME is an open source malware analysis platform that is meant to facilitate analysis of malware-related files, leveraging as much knowledge as possible in order to speed up and automate end-to-end analysis. FAME should be seen as a malware analysis framework...

Online Malware & URL Analysis: MalSub

Online Malware & URL Analysis malsub is a Python 3.6.x framework that wraps several web services of online malware and URL analysis sites through their RESTful Application Programming Interfaces APIs . It supports submitting files or URLs for analysis, retrieving reports by hash values, domains,...

Malware Information Sharing Platform: MISP

Malware Information Sharing Platform MISP, Malware Information Sharing Platform and Threat Sharing, is an open source software solution for collecting, storing, distributing and sharing cyber security indicators and threat about cyber security incidents analysis and malware analysis. MISP is...

SA141 : OpenSSL Vulnerabilities 26-Jan-2017

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products using affected versions of OpenSSL are susceptible to several vulnerabilities. A remote attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service and obtain private key information. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following products are vulnerable:...