Shaman Vilen

Shaman Vilen is a security researcher. He has coded mainly x86 assembly and C. His research primarily mirrors his interests in reverse code engineering, code mutation techniques and malware analysis, as well as x86 assembly language and its concepts.

Malware analysis July 2, 2015 Shaman Vilen

Win32/Lethic Botnet Analysis

Lethic is a spam botnet consisting of an estimated 210 000 - 310 000 individual machines which are mainly involved in pharmaceutical and replica spam. At the...

Malware analysis January 19, 2015 Shaman Vilen

Tyupkin ATM Malware Analysis

Some time ago, Kaspersky discovered and reported a new type of malicious program called Tyupkin, which targets ATM machines by moving beyond targeting consumers...

Malware analysis December 26, 2014 Shaman Vilen

Evolution of Banking Malwares, Part 2

This technique is used in scenarios where critical information such as Social Security Number (SSN) or Personal Identification Number (PIN) is otherwise not...

Malware analysis December 24, 2014 Shaman Vilen

Evolution of Banking Malwares, Part 1

Why are malware authors so interested in banking malware? Simply because this is where the money is! Nowadays, banking malware, specifically banking Trojans,...