What we learned by unpacking a recent wave of Imminent RAT infections using AMP

This blog post was authored by Chris Marczewski Cisco Talos has been tracking a series of Imminent RAT infections for the past two months following reported data from Cisco Advanced Malware Protection's AMP Exploit Prevention engine. AMP successfully stopped the malware before it was able to infe...

Frida-Wshook - Script Analysis Tool Based On Frida.re

frida-wshook is an analysis and instrumentation tool which uses frida.re to hook common functions often used by malicious script files which are run using WScript/CScript. The tool intercepts Windows API functions and doesn't implement function stubs or proxies within the targeted scripting...

New Trickbot Variant Touts Stealthy Code-Injection Trick

Trickbot has been around since 2016 – but a new variant of the infamous financial trojan has caught the eyes of researchers with a stealthy code-injection technique. Researchers at Cyberbit this week said that they have found a new Trickbot iteration that features a sneaky method of performing...

A vulnerable driver: lesson almost learned

Recently, we started receiving suspicious events from our internal sandbox Exploit Checker plugin. Our heuristics for supervisor mode code execution in the user address space were constantly being triggered, and an executable file was being flagged for further analysis. At first, it looked like...

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 -...

Is That a Bot In Your Pocket? Or Does It Just Look Like One?

Last week at the RSA Conference, my colleague Derek Brown and I, presented findings from a research project titled MOBOTS: Pocketful of Pwnage, which was designed to show how easy it would be to create a large mobile botnet. Please note that we did not actually create a botnet; we simply presente...