CVE-2019-13125

CVE-2019-13125 affects Tencent Habo/HaboMalHunter up to version 2.0.3. The root cause is a vulnerability related to PIE compilation that allows attackers to evade dynamic malware analysis, enabling bypass of sandbox analysis in the affected tool. Public documents describe the impact as bypassing ...

CVE-2019-13125

HaboMalHunter through 2.0.0.3 in Tencent Habo allows attackers to evade dynamic malware analysis via PIE compilation...

CVE-2019-13125: Undefined Security Weakness

HaboMalHunter through 2.0.0.3 in Tencent Habo allows attackers to evade dynamic malware analysis via PIE compilation...

UPDATE: Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.7

PenTestIT RSS Feed It has been some time that I posted about the Cuckoo Sandbox. Good news is that the guys at the Cuckoo Foundation are not silent and have released the Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.7, with lots of improvements, code cleanup, support for VirtualBox 6 and the well deserved support for the...

Learning to Rank Strings Output for Speedier Malware Analysis

Reverse engineers, forensic investigators, and incident responders have an arsenal of tools at their disposal to dissect malicious software binaries. When performing malware analysis, they successively apply these tools in order to gradually gather clues about a binary’s function, design detectio...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: HopLight Campaign (Linked to North Korea) is Reusing Substantial Amount of Code

On April 10, 2019 the US Department of Homeland Security DHS released a Malware Analysis Report MAR-10135536-8 which detailed the trojan HopLight. HopLight has been linked to different North Korean DPRK campaigns also known as the Lazarus Group. The CB Threat Analysis Unit TAU has continued to...

FLASHMINGO - Automatic Analysis Of SWF Files Based On Some Heuristics

Automatic Analysis Of SWF Files Based On Some Heuristics. Extensible Via Plugins. Install Install the Python 2.7 packages listed in requirements.txt. You can use the following command: pip install -r requirements.txt If you want to use the decompilation functionality you need to install Jython...

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity

The Department of Homeland Security DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have identified a Trojan malware variant—referred to as HOPLIGHT—used by the North Korean government. The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government as HIDDEN COBRA. The...

PowerShellArsenal - A PowerShell Module Dedicated To Reverse Engineering

PowerShellArsenal is a PowerShell module used to aid a reverse engineer. The module can be used to disassemble managed and unmanaged code, perform .NET malware analysis, analyze/scrape memory, parse file formats and memory structures, obtain internal system information, etc. PowerShellArsenal is...

NSA Releases GHIDRA Source Code — Free Reverse Engineering Tool

Update 4/4/2019 — Great news. NSA today finally released the complete source code for GHIDRA version 9.0.2 which is now available on its Github repository. GHIDRA is agency's home-grown classified software reverse engineering tool that agency experts have been using internally for over a decade t...

FLARE Script Series: Recovering Stackstrings Using Emulation with ironstrings

This blog post continues our Script Series where the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team shares tools to aid the malware analysis community. Today, we release ironstrings: a new IDAPython script to recover stackstrings from malware. The script leverages code emulation to overcome...

JavaScript bridge makes malware analysis with WinDbg easier

Introduction As malware researchers, we spend several days a week debugging malware in order to learn more about it. We have several powerful and popular user mode tools to choose from, such as OllyDbg, x64dbg, IDA Pro and Immunity Debugger. All these debuggers utilize some scripting language to...

Ponce - IDA Plugin For Symbolic Execution Just One-Click Away!

Ponce pronounced 'poN θe pon-they is an IDA Pro plugin that provides users the ability to perform taint analysis and symbolic execution over binaries in an easy and intuitive fashion. With Ponce you are one click away from getting all the power from cutting edge symbolic execution. Entirely writt...

Analyzing a new stealer written in Golang

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Malboxes - Builds Malware Analysis Windows VMs So That You Don'T Have To

Builds malware analysis Windows virtual machines so that you don’t have to. Requirements Python 3.3+ packer: https://www.packer.io/docs/install/index.html vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html VirtualBox or an vSphere / ESXi server Minimum specs for the build machine At least 5 GB of...

NSA to release its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool for free

The United States' National Security Agency NSA is planning to release its internally developed reverse engineering tool for free at the upcoming RSA security conference 2019 that will be held in March in San Francisco. The existence of the framework, dubbed GHIDRA, was first publicly revealed by...

NSA to release its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool for free

The United States' National Security Agency NSA is planning to release its internally developed reverse engineering tool for free at the upcoming RSA security conference 2019 that will be held in March in San Francisco. The existence of the framework, dubbed GHIDRA, was first publicly revealed by...

SNDBOX: AI-Powered Online Automated Malware Analysis Platform

Looking for an automated malware analysis software? Something like a 1-click solution that doesn't require any installation or configuration…a platform that can scale up your research time… technology that can provide data-driven explanations… well, your search is over! Israeli cybersecurity and...

SNDBOX: AI-Powered Online Automated Malware Analysis Platform

Looking for an automated malware analysis software? Something like a 1-click solution that doesn't require any installation or configuration…a platform that can scale up your research time… technology that can provide data-driven explanations… well, your search is over! Israeli cybersecurity and...

BlobRunner - Quickly Debug Shellcode Extracted During Malware Analysis

BlobRunner is a simple tool to quickly debug shellcode extracted during malware analysis. BlobRunner allocates memory for the target file and jumps to the base or offset of the allocated memory. This allows an analyst to quickly debug into extracted artifacts with minimal overhead and effort. To...