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.

Articles from Shaman Vilen

Win32/Lethic Botnet Analysis

July 2, 2015

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

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Tyupkin ATM Malware Analysis

January 19, 2015

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

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Evolution of Banking Malwares, Part 2

December 26, 2014

Web Injects This technique is used in scenarios where critical information such as Social Security Number (SSN) or Personal Identification Number (PIN) is ot

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Evolution of Banking Malwares, Part 1

December 24, 2014

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

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