Stress Test Anti Malware System: al-khaser

Stress Test Anti Malware System al-khaser is a PoC malware with good intentions that aims to stress your anti-malware system. It performs a bunch of nowadays malwares tricks and the goal is to see if you catch them all. Some of the common use are: You are making an anti-debug plugin and you want ...

Book — Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security

If we talk about old days, a hacker often rely on the natural helpfulness as well as weaknesses of people whom he wanted to target. This tactic to break into a computer network by gaining the confidence of an authorized user and get them to reveal information that compromises the network's securi...

Turing Test in Reverse: New Sandbox-Evasion Techniques Seek Human Interaction

Last year, we published a paper titled Hot Knives Through Butter, Evading File-Based Sandboxes. In this paper, we explained many sandbox evasion methods--and today's blog post adds to our growing catalog. In the past, for example, we detailed the inner workings of a Trojan we dubbed UpClicker. Th...