U.S. Cyber Command Shares 11 New Malware Samples

U.S. Cyber Command has released 11 malware samples to the malware aggregation tool and repository, VirusTotal. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review U.S. Cyber Command’s VirusTotal page to view the samples. CISA also recommends use...

PEpper - An Open Source Script To Perform Malware Static Analysis On Portable Executable

An open source tool to perform malware static analysis on P ortable E xecutable Installation eva@paradise:$ git clone https://github.com/Th3Hurrican3/PEpper/ eva@paradise:$ cd PEpper eva@paradise:$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt eva@paradise:$ python3 pepper.py ./malwaredir Screenshot...

Caution: Misuse of security tools can turn against you

We have a saying in Greece: "They assigned the wolf to watch over the sheep." In a security context, this is a word of caution about making sure the tools we use to keep our information private don't actually cause the data leaks themselves. In this article, I will be talking about some cases tha...

‘Twas the night before

Recently, the United States Cyber Command USCYBERCOM Malware Alert @CNMFVirusAlert highlighted several VirusTotal uploads of theirs - and the executable objects relating to 2016 – 2017 NewsBeef/APT33 activity are interesting for a variety of reasons. Before continuing, it's important to restate y...

New Mac Malware Exploits GateKeeper Bypass Bug that Apple Left Unpatched

Cybersecurity researchers from Intego are warning about possible active exploitation of an unpatched security vulnerability in Apple's macOS Gatekeeper security feature details and PoC for which were publicly disclosed late last month. Intego team last week discovered four samples of new macOS...

Unprotect Project: Classify Malwares Based on Known Evasion Techniques

PenTestIT RSS Feed One of the first steps in learning about a malware is to see if it is evasive in any sense and then proceed accordingly. The Unprotect Project helps you do this easily. It is an open source project in Python that proposes a malware classification techniques based on their evasi...

URLextractor - Information Gathering and Website Reconnaissance

Informationgathering & website reconnaissance Usage: ./extractor http://www.hackthissite.org/ Tips: Colorex: put colors to the ouput pip install colorex and use it like ./extractor http://www.hackthissite.org/ | colorex -g "INFO" -r "ALERT" Tldextract: is used by dnsenumeration function pip insta...

New Linux Malware ‘HiddenWasp’ Borrows from Mirai, Azazel

A new strain of malware targeting Linux systems has been identified by researchers. The malware, dubbed HiddenWasp, is believed to be used as part of a second-stage attack against already-compromised systems and is composed of a rootkit, trojan and deployment script. “The ratio of Linux threats h...

ExtAnalysis - Browser Extension Analysis Framework

With ExtAnalysis you can : Download & Analyze Extensions From: Chrome Web Store Firefox Addons Analyze Installed Extensions of: Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Opera Browser Coming Soon Upload and Scan Extensions. Supported formats: .crx .xpi .zip Features of ExtAnalysis : View Basic Informations:...

Threat Source (April 25)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. If you haven’t yet, there’s still time to register for this year’s Talos Threat Research Summit — our second annual conference by...

Source Code for CARBANAK Banking Malware Found On VirusTotal

Security researchers have discovered the full source code of the Carbanak malware—yes, this time it's for real. Carbanak—sometimes referred as FIN7, Anunak or Cobalt—is one of the most full-featured, dangerous malware that belongs to an APT-style cybercriminal group involved in several attacks...

Source Code for CARBANAK Banking Malware Found On VirusTotal

Security researchers have discovered the full source code of theCarbanak malware—yes, this time it's for real. Carbanak—sometimes referred as FIN7, Anunak or Cobalt—is one of the most full-featured, dangerous malware that belongs to an APT-style cybercriminal group involved in several attacks...

Just-Metadata - Tool That Gathers And Analyzes Metadata About IP Addresses

Just-Metadata is a tool that can be used to gather intelligence information passively about a large number of IP addresses, and attempt to extrapolate relationships that might not otherwise be seen. Just-Metadata has "gather" modules which are used to gather metadata about IPs loaded into the...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: NanoCore – Old Malware, New Tricks!

In analyzing the stream of raw emails seen in the wild, TAU discovered a campaign of what first appeared to be a fairly standard spear-phishing attack. The email contained a Word document which carried an exploit for CVE-2017-11882, a vulnerability that allows for Microsoft Office documents to ru...

New Golang brute forcer discovered amid rise in e-commerce attacks

E-commerce websites continue to be targeted by online criminals looking to steal personal and payment information directly from unaware shoppers. Recently, attacks have been conducted via skimmer, which is a piece of code that is either directly injected into a hacked site or referenced externall...

Analyzing a new stealer written in Golang

Golang Go is a relatively new programming language, and it is not common to find malware written in it. However, new variants written in Go are slowly emerging, presenting a challenge to malware analysts. Applications written in this language are bulky and look much different under a debugger fro...

New Shamoon Malware Variant Targets Italian Oil and Gas Company

Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia's largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Italian oil drilling company Saipem was attacked and...

Knock v.4.1.1 - Subdomain Scan

Knockpy is a python tool designed to enumerate subdomains on a target domain through a wordlist. It is designed to scan for DNS zone transfer and to try to bypass the wildcard DNS record automatically if it is enabled. Now knockpy supports queries to VirusTotal subdomains, you can setting the...

Dirhunt v0.6.0 - Find Web Directories Without Bruteforce

DEVELOPMENT BRANCH : The current branch is a development version. Go to the stable release by clicking on the master branch. Dirhunt is a web crawler optimize for search and analyze directories. This tool can find interesting things if the server has the "index of" mode enabled. Dirhunt is also...

The Pentagon Is Publishing Foreign Nation-State Malware

This is a new thing: The Pentagon has suddenly started uploading malware samples from APTs and other nation-state sources to the website VirusTotal, which is essentially a malware zoo that's used by security pros and antivirus/malware detection engines to gain a better understanding of the threat...