capa 2.0: Better, Stronger, Faster

We are excited to announce version 2.0 of our open-source tool called capa. capa automatically identifies capabilities in programs using an extensible rule set. The tool supports both malware triage and deep dive reverse engineering. If you haven’t heard of capa before, or need a refresher, check...

Recording: Analyzing Android Malware — From triage to reverse-engineering

It's easy to get wrapped up worry about large-scale ransomware attacks on the threat landscape. These are the types of attacks that make headlines and strike fear into the hearts of CISOs everywhere. But if you want to defend the truly prolific and widespread threats that target some of the...

SharpDPAPI - A C# Port Of Some Mimikatz DPAPI Functionality

SharpDPAPI is a C port of some DPAPI functionality from @gentilkiwi's Mimikatz project. I did not come up with this logic, it is simply a port from Mimikatz in order to better understand the process and operationalize it to fit our workflow. The SharpChrome subproject is an adaptation of work fro...

CISA Releases Supplemental Direction on Emergency Directive for Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued supplemental direction to Emergency Directive ED 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities providing additional forensic triage and server hardening, requirements for federal agencies. Specifically, this update directs federal departments and agencies ...

CISA Releases Supplemental Guidance on Emergency Directive for Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued supplemental direction to Emergency Directive ED 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities providing additional forensic triage and server hardening, requirements for federal agencies. Specifically, this update directs federal departments and agencies ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-27779

A flaw was found in grub2 in versions prior to 2.06. The cutmem command does not honor secure boot locking allowing an privileged attacker to remove address ranges from memory creating an opportunity to circumvent SecureBoot protections after proper triage about grub's memory layout. The highest...

What we like about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. It’s no secret that the security industry generally likes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. After a few months of using and integrating it with our platform here at Expel, we feel the...

OSV - Open Source Vulnerability DB And Triage Service

OSV is a vulnerability database and triage infrastructure for open source projects aimed at helping both open source maintainers and consumers of open source. For open source maintainers, OSV's automation helps reduce the burden of triage. Each vulnerability undergoes automated bisection and impa...

Talkin’ SMAC: Alert Labeling and Why It Matters

If you’ve ever worked in a Security Operations Center SOC, you know that it’s a special place. Among other things, the SOC is a massive data-labeling machine, and generates some of the most valuable data in the cybersecurity industry. Unfortunately, much of this valuable data is often rendered...

h1-ctf: Grinch Networks compromised!

Grinch Networks compromised! For fast triage/validation and inspired by @manoelt in other CTF, I made a bash script to find and print all the 12 flags of this CTF. The script uses curl, wget, google-chrome headless for flag 2, unzip, grep and sed. If any of these commands is missing, the script...

VMware Carbon Black First to Block Hidden Malicious Commands in Obfuscated Scripts

For a long time now, our Threat Analysts have flagged the growing threat of script-based attacks, especially from Microsoft PowerShell and Windows Management Interface script commands, and their ability to escape notice in many antivirus solutions. Increasingly, these types of attacks have become...

capa: Automatically Identify Malware Capabilities

capa is the FLARE team’s newest open-source tool for analyzing malicious programs. Our tool provides a framework for the community to encode, recognize, and share behaviors that we’ve seen in malware. Regardless of your background, when you use capa, you invoke decades of cumulative reverse...

Analyzing Dark Crystal RAT, a C# Backdoor

The FireEye Mandiant Threat Intelligence Team helps protect our customers by tracking cyber attackers and the malware they use. The FLARE Team helps augment our threat intelligence by reverse engineering malware samples. Recently, FLARE worked on a new C variant of Dark Crystal RAT DCRat that the...

AMA Recap: Top 10 Tips to Secure Your Remote Workforce

This is part of our ongoing conversation about the worldwide challenges of working remotely. To stay up-to-date on the latest insights, refer to our live page for COVID-19: Cybersecurity Community Resources. As organizations around the world transition to remote work en masse, cybersecurity...

Razer: SQL Injection at api.easy2pay.co/add-on/get-sig.php via partner_id Parameter

The tester discovered a SQL injection vulnerability that allowed the potential extraction of sensitive user information from the Razer Gold Thailand database. Razer thanks the tester for his PoC as well as working with the Triage and dev teams to clarify the issue and get it fixed...

AutoMacTC - Automated Mac Forensic Triage Collector

This is a modular forensic triage collection framework designed to access various forensic artifacts on macOS, parse them, and present them in formats viable for analysis. The output may provide valuable insights for incident response in a macOS environment. Automactc can be run against a live...

A proactive approach to more secure code

What if we could eliminate an entire class of vulnerabilities before they ever happened? Since 2004, the Microsoft Security Response Centre MSRC has triaged every reported Microsoft security vulnerability. From all that triage one astonishing fact sticks out: as Matt Miller discussed in his 2019...

Partner Perspectives: Accelerated Alert Handling from Syncurity and Carbon Black

JP Bourget is the Founder and CSO of Syncurity. One of the key Security Orchestration, Automation and Response SOAR use cases I see every day is alert handling. As more and more organizations adopt EDR solutions, like those offered by Carbon Black, Syncurity IR-Flow is able to speed up the alert...

Partner Perspectives: ThreatConnect and Carbon Black: Incorporating Threat Intel for Quicker Incident Response

Megan Horner is the Director of Product Marketing for ThreatConnect. When it comes to incident response, there’s typically a focus on three main stages: investigation, containment, and remediation. Moving from one stage to the next as efficiently as possible is critical to expediting response...

Partner Perspectives: More Effective Threat Hunting with ThreatConnect and Carbon Black

Megan Horner is the Director of Product Marketing for ThreatConnect. You’ll hear a lot in cybersecurity - and in technology in general - about the necessity of integrations. The more security solutions can communicate back and forth with what they find “in the wild” and how it compares to what’s...