CyberByte steals Malwarebytes’ intellectual property

At Malwarebytes, we frequently examine apps for detection as Potentially Unwanted Programs PUPs. These are programs that exhibit a wide variety of bad behaviors, but aren't actually outright malware. Unfortunately, there are many supposed antivirus programs that fit this category. Following user...

The state of malicious cryptomining

While cryptocurrencies have been around for a long time and used for legitimate purposes, online criminals have certainly tarnished their reputation. Unfortunately, the same benefits offered by these decentralized and somewhat anonymous digital currencies were quickly abused to extort money, as w...

Armadito Antivirus 0.12.7.2 Detection Bypass

/ Title: Armadito Antivirus - Malware Detection Bypass Date: 21/02/2018 Author: Souhail Hammou Author's website: http://rce4fun.blogspot.com Vendor Homepage: http://www.teclib-edition.com/en/ Version: 0.12.7.2 CVE: CVE-2018-7289 Details: -------- An issue was discovered in...

Armadito Antivirus 0.12.7.2 - Detection Bypass Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits / Title: Armadito Antivirus - Malware Detection Bypass Date: 21/02/2018 Author: Souhail Hammou Author's website: http://rce4fun.blogspot.com Vendor Homepage: http://www.teclib-edition.com/en/ Version: 0.12.7.2 CVE: CVE-2018-7289 Details:...

Armadito Antivirus 0.12.7.2 - Detection Bypass

/ Title: Armadito Antivirus - Malware Detection Bypass Date: 21/02/2018 Author: Souhail Hammou Author's website: http://rce4fun.blogspot.com Vendor Homepage: http://www.teclib-edition.com/en/ Version: 0.12.7.2 CVE: CVE-2018-7289 Details: -------- An issue was discovered in...

Armadito Antivirus 0.12.7.2 - Detection Bypass

Armadito Antivirus 0.12.7.2 - Detection Bypass / Title: Armadito Antivirus - Malware Detection Bypass Date: 21/02/2018 Author: Souhail Hammou Author's website: http://rce4fun.blogspot.com Vendor Homepage: http://www.teclib-edition.com/en/ Version: 0.12.7.2 CVE: CVE-2018-7289 Details: -------- An...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in armadito-windows-driver/src/communication.c in Armadito 0.12.7.2. Malware with filenames containing pure UTF-16 characters can bypass detection. The user-mode service will fail to open the file for scanning after the conversion is done from Unicode to ANSI. This happens...

CVE-2018-7289

This CVE affects Armadito 0.12.7.2 (armadito-windows-driver/src/communication.c). The issue arises when converting Unicode to ANSI: characters that cannot be converted are replaced with '?', allowing malware with filenames composed of pure UTF-16 characters to bypass the antivirus detection in th...

MADLIRA - Malware detection using learning and information retrieval for Android

MADLIRA is a tool for Android malware detection. It consists in two components: TFIDF component and SVM learning component. In gerneral, it takes an input a set of malwares and benwares and then extracts the malicious behaviors TFIDF component or computes training model SVM classifier. Then, it...

Denis and Co.

In April 2017, we published a detailed review of a malicious program that used DNS tunneling to communicate to its C&C. That study prompted us to develop a technology to detect similar threats, which allowed us to collect a multitude of malware samples using DNS tunneling. In this article, we wil...

Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...

Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...

Investigation Report for the September 2014 Equation malware detection incident in the US

Background In early October, a story was published by the Wall Street Journal alleging Kaspersky Lab software was used to siphon classified data from an NSA employee's home computer system. Given that Kaspersky Lab has been at the forefront of fighting cyberespionage and cybercriminal activities ...

Unpatched Windows Kernel Bug Could Help Malware Hinder Detection

A 17-year-old programming error has been discovered in Microsoft's Windows kernel that could prevent some security software from detecting malware at runtime when loaded into system memory. The security issue, described by enSilo security researcher Omri Misgav, resides in the kernel routine...

Cb Defense Praised in Independent Tests, Product Reviews

Earlier this week, Carbon Black announced the Q3 release of Cb Defense, which features breakthrough streaming ransomware prevention as well as live response capability. Following this announcement, three independent security organizations published reviews and reports confirming the efficacy of C...

Cross site scripting

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality within Advanced Malware Protection AMP of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESAs could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an email attachment containing malware to be delivered to the end user. The...

An Established Solution for Mobile Threats

As much as smartphones and applications have evolved over the years, so has mobile malware. We’re seeing an increasing number of threats—from mobile ransomware and auto-clicking adware to dangerous backdoors that can compromise your privacy. And there are also legitimate personal applications tha...

Cisco Email Security Appliance Malformed EML Attachment Bypass Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality within Advanced Malware Protection AMP of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESAs could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an email attachment containing malware to be delivered to the end user. The...

Facebook worries: I didn’t post that

It is my assumption that most Facebook users don’t look at their own profile often. With your own profile, I mean the timeline that shows up when you click your own name or avatar in the Facebook menu. That’s because we think we know exactly what is posted there, so why bother to look at it? Afte...

Serverless, Real-time Malware Detection: BinaryAlert

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...