AgentTesla Delivered via a Malicious PowerPoint Add-In, (Sat, May 23rd)

Attackers are always trying to find new ways to deliver malicious code to their victims. Microsoft Word and Excel are documents that can be easily weaponized by adding malicious VBA macros. Today, they are one of the most common techniques to compromise a computer. Especially because Microsoft implemented automatically executed macros when the document is opened. In Word, the macro must be named AutoOpen(). In Excel, the name must be Workbook_Open(). However, PowerPoint does not support this kind of macro. Really? Not in the same way as Word and Excel do!

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Malware Triage with FLOSS: API Calls Based Behavior, (Thu, May 21st)

Malware triage is a key component of your hunting process. When you collect suspicious files from multiple sources, you need a tool to automatically process them to extract useful information. To achieve this task, I’m using FAME[1] which means “FAME Automates Malware Evaluationâ€. This framework is very nice due to the architecture based on plugins that you can enable upon your needs. Here is an overview of my configuration:

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