EMBER2024 -- a Benchmark Dataset for Holistic Evaluation of Malware Classifiers

A lack of accessible data has historically restricted malware analysis research, and practitioners have relied heavily on datasets provided by industry sources to advance. Existing public datasets are limited by narrow scope - most include files targeting a single platform, have labels supporting...

Abusing VBS Enclaves to Create Evasive Malware

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CVE-2024-0394: Rapid7 Minerva Armor Privilege Escalation (FIXED)

Rapid7 is disclosing CVE-2024-0394, a privilege escalation vulnerability in Rapid7 Minerva’s Armor product family. Minerva uses the open-source OpenSSL library for cryptographic functions and to support secure communications. The root cause of this vulnerability is Minerva’s implementation of...

Experts Warn of 'Beep' - A New Evasive Malware That Can Fly Under the Radar

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new piece of evasive malware dubbed Beep that's designed to fly under the radar and drop additional payloads onto a compromised host. "It seemed as if the authors of this malware were trying to implement as many anti-debugging and anti-VM anti-sandbox...

Experts Warn of 'Beep' - A New Evasive Malware That Can Fly Under the Radar

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new piece of evasive malware dubbed Beep that's designed to fly under the radar and drop additional payloads onto a compromised host. "It seemed as if the authors of this malware were trying to implement as many anti-debugging and anti-VM anti-sandbox...

BATLOADER- Evasive Malware leverages SEO poisoning

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary "BatLoader" dropper is used to dispense a range of malware tools on victim devices, including a banking Trojan, an information stealer, and the Cobalt Strike post-exploit toolkit. BatLoader malware actor...

New Syslogk Linux Rootkit Lets Attackers Remotely Command It Using "Magic Packets"

A new covert Linux kernel rootkit named Syslogk has been spotted under development in the wild and cloaking a malicious payload that can be remotely commandeered by an adversary using a magic network traffic packet. "The Syslogk rootkit is heavily based on Adore-Ng but incorporates new...

CAPEv2 - Malware Configuration And Payload Extraction

CAPE is a malware sandbox. It was derived from Cuckoo with the goal of adding automated malware unpacking and config extraction - hence its name is an acronym: 'Config And Payload Extraction'. Automated unpacking allows classification based on Yara signatures to complement network Suricata and...

New BLISTER Malware Using Code Signing Certificates to Evade Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an evasive malware campaign that makes use of valid code signing certificates to sneak past security defenses and stay under the radar with the goal of deploying Cobalt Strike and BitRAT payloads on compromised systems. The binary, a loader, has...

Partner Perspectives: From Alert to Action: How VMRay Provides Carbon Black with Detail-Rich Threat Intelligence

Good things happen when two leaders in their respective fields bring together their complementary capabilities. That’s the case with Carbon Black’s deep expertise in endpoint detection and response EDR and VMRay’s singular focus on dynamic malware analysis. The sum ends up being even greater than...