Complete Tour of PE and ELF: An Introduction
I have decided to come up with an end-to-end malware analysis course and even extend it to memory forensics and detecting APT's. Though this might sound great,...
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The Zero-Days Documentary
A new documentary titled Zero Days recently presented at the Berlin Film Festival provided further details on the intelligence operations that led to the Stuxnet...
PoS Malware: All You Need to Know
PoS malware continues to be a serious threat to several industries, from retail to the hotel industry. Respect our previous post, the number of attacks increased...
How Malware Detects Virtualized Environment (and its Countermeasures)
Virtual Machines are usually considered a good way to analyze malware as they can provide an isolated environment for the malware to trigger but their actions...
SQL Injection Analysis
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BlackEnergy Used as a Cyber Weapon Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
Recently the researchers at ESET firm spotted a new wave of malware-based attacks that are targeting media outlets and energy companies in Ukraine. The threat...
Malware Researcher’s Handbook (Demystifying PE File Part 2)
As per our previous article we will continue on this article here by the rest of section of PE file. Those who don't know the previous section please have...
Reversing the Pony Trojan part II
Pony is a stealer Trojan and has been active for quite a while now. It was responsible for stealing over $200,000 in bitcoins ( https://threatpost.com/latest-instance-of-pony-botnet-pilfers-200k-700k-credentials/104463/)...
A Case Study of Information Stealers: Part I
A stealer is a type of malware that looks for passwords stored on the machine and sends them remotely (e.g. mail, HTTP) to an attacker. Most stealers use a...
Reversing the Pony Trojan Part I
Pony is a stealer Trojan and has been active for quite a while now. It was responsible for stealing over $200,000 in bitcoins ( https://threatpost.com/latest-instance-of-pony-botnet-pilfers-200k-700k-credentials/104463/)...