Help Wanted: What are these odd reuqests about?, (Sun, Sep 21st)

Looking at our web honeypot data, I came across an odd new request header I hadn&#;x26;#;39;t seen before: “X-Forwarded-App”. My first guess was that this is yet another issue with a proxy-server bucket brigade spilling secrets when a particular “App” is connecting to it. So I dove in a bit deeper, and found requests like this:

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CTRL-Z DLL Hooking, (Wed, Sep 17th)

When you’re debugging a malware sample, you probably run it into a debugger and define some breakpoints. The idea is to take over the program control before it will perform “interesting” actions. Usually, we set breakpoints on memory management API call (like VirtualAlloc()) or process activities (like CreateProcess(), CreateRemoteThread(), …).

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