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[SANS ISC] A Fork of the FTCode Powershell Ransomware

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I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “A Fork of the FTCode Powershell Ransomware“: Yesterday, I found a new malicious Powershell script that deserved to be analyzed due to the way it was dropped on the victim’s computer. As usual, the malware was delivered through a malicious Word document with

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[SANS ISC] Powershell Bot with Multiple C2 Protocols

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I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Powershell Bot with Multiple C2 Protocols“: I spotted another interesting Powershell script. It’s a bot and is delivered through a VBA macro that spawns an instance of msbuild.exe This Windows tool is often used to compile/execute malicious on the fly (I already wrote a diary about this

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[SANS ISC] Compromized Desktop Applications by Web Technologies

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I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Compromized Desktop Applications by Web Technologies”: For a long time now, it has been said that “the new operating system is the browser”. Today, we do everything in our browsers, we connect to the office, we process emails, documents, we chat, we perform

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[SANS ISC] Simple Blacklisting with MISP & pfSense

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I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Simple Blacklisting with MISP & pfSense“: Here is an example of a simple but effective blacklist system that I’m using on my pfSense firewalls. pfSense is a very modular firewall that can be expanded with many packages. About blacklists, there is a well-known

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Detecting Code ReUse in Ghidra With Intezer’s Plugin

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Ghidra is a very nice disassembler developed by the NSA. When they released it, the tool became very popular amongst the security community thanks to its power and a huge list of features (that some competitors included with extra licenses – like the pseudo-code generator). Ghidra is also the default

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Simple DGA Spotted in a Malicious PowerShell

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DGA (“Domain Generation Algorithm“) is a technique implemented in some malware families to defeat defenders and to make the generation of IOC’s (and their usage – example to implement black lists) more difficult. When a piece of malware has to contact a C2 server, it uses domain names or IP

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When NTP Kills Your Sandbox

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If it’s common to say that “Everything is a Freaking DNS problem“, other protocols can also be the source of problems… NTP (“Network Time Protocol”) is also a good candidate! A best practice is to synchronize all your devices via NTP but also to set up the same timezone! We

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[SANS ISC] Sextortion to The Next Level

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I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Sextortion to The Next Level“: For a long time, our mailboxes are flooded with emails from “hackers” (note the quotes) who pretend to have infected our computers with malware. The scenario is always the same: They successfully collected sensitive pieces of evidence about

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[SANS ISC] Malicious Excel Delivering Fileless Payload

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I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malicious Excel Delivering Fileless Payload“: Macros in Office documents are so common today that my honeypots and hunting scripts catch a lot of them daily. I try to keep an eye on them because sometimes you can spot an interesting one (read: “using a less common

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[SANS ISC] Anti-Debugging JavaScript Techniques

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I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Anti-Debugging JavaScript Techniques“: For developers who write malicious programs, it’s important to make their code not easy to be read and executed in a sandbox. Like most languages, there are many ways to make the life of malware analysts mode difficult (or more

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