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How public-private partnerships can combat cyber adversaries
For several years now, policymakers and practitioners from governments, CERTs, and the security industry have been speaking about the importance of public-private partnerships as an essential part of combating cyber threats. It is impossible to attend a security conference without a keynote...
IT threat evolution Q3 2017
Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Re-enter the dragon In July, we reported on the recent activities of a targeted attack group called 'Spring Dragon' also known as LotusBlossom, whose activities data back to 2012. Spring Dragon makes extensive use of spear-phishing and watering-hole attacks...
DHS Alert on Dragonfly APT Contains IOCs, Rules Likely to Trigger False Positives
A joint Technical Alert, TA17–293A, released over the weekend by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security describing the activities of a Russian APT may contain signatures and rules likely to trigger false positives in some security systems. The alert, made available Saturday morning, dissects...
A week in security (September 11 – September 17)
Last week, we dug into phishing campaigns done via Linkedin accounts, remediation versus prevention, issues with smart syringe pumps, and advised you to go patch against a Word 0day. We had some tips regarding identity theft protection, explored crowdsourced fraud, and explained YARA rules...
Explained: YARA rules
YARA rules are a way of identifying malware or other files by creating rules that look for certain characteristics. YARA was originally developed by Victor Alvarez of Virustotal and is mainly used in malware research and detection. It was developed with the idea to describe patterns that identify...
PPEE (Puppy) - Professional PE file Explorer for reversers and malware researchers
There are lots of tools out there for statically analyzing malicious binaries, but they are ordinary tools for ordinary files. Puppy is a lightweight yet strong tool for static investigation of suspicious files. A companion plugin is also provided to query the file in the well-known malware...
Professional PE file Explorer: PPEE
Professional PE file Explorer Puppy is a lightweight yet strong tool for static investigation of suspicious files. A companion plugin is also provided to query the file in the well-known malware repositories and take one-click technical information about the file such as its size, entropy,...
Malware Scanning Services Containers for Sensitive Business Information
SINT MAARTEN—Malware scanning services could be the next listening outpost for criminals and nation-state attackers as more of these services such as VirusTotal are becoming containers for personal, business and even classified information because of some organizations’ policy decision to upload...
YARA File Scan (Linux)
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Simple Static Malware Analyzer: SSMA
Simple Static Malware Analyzer SSMA is a simple malware analyzer written in Python 3. Features: Analyze PE file’s header and sections number of sections, entropy of sections/PE file, suspicious section names, suspicious flags in the characteristics of the PE file, etc. Searches for possible...
SSMA - Simple Static Malware Analyzer
SSMA is a simple malware analyzer written in Python 3. Features: Searches for websites, e-mail addresses, IP addresses in the strings of the file. Looks for Windows functions commonly used by malware. Get results from VirusTotal and/or upload files. Malware detection based on Yara-rules -...
yarGen - A Generator for Yara Rules (for malware researchers)
yarGen is a generator for Yara rules. What does yarGen do? The main principle is the creation of yara rules from strings found in malware files while removing all strings that also appear in goodware files. Since version 0.14.0 it uses naive-bayes-classifier by Mustafa Atik and Nejdet Yucesoy in...
