Malware analysis

Malware analysis

August 2012 – Saudi Aramco hit by a cyber attack On August 15th, 2012, the Saudi Arabia's oil company, Saudi Aramco announced that its systems and its intern

Malware analysis

In this article series, we will learn about malware behavioral and code analysis. For part 1, I will cover behavioral analysis of one of the specimens. Behav

Malware analysis

August 2015, MalwareMustDie spotted the Mirai malware In August 2015, the researcher MalwareMustDie analyzed samples of a new ELF Trojan backdoor, dubbed ELF

Malware analysis

In Part 1 of this article series, we had a look at the ways to recognize packed executables and various ways to automate the unpacking process. In this artic

Malware analysis

In this article series, we will learn about the characteristics possessed by a packed malware specimen and how to unpack them. In the unpacking section, we w

Malware analysis

Introduction In the last couple of years, security firms have observed an increasing number of malware specifically designed to target Linux-based systems. L

Malware analysis

In Part One of this article, we learned about two injection techniques such as remote DLL injection and hollow process injection. In this article, we will le

Malware analysis

In this article, we will take a look at the code injection techniques. We will take a look at remote DLL injection, remote code injection, Reflective DLL inj

Malware analysis

In the previous part, we stopped right at when the decision of which approach to use to encrypt the data, i.e. either Petya or Mischa. In this article, we wi

Malware analysis

Malware and Botnets have been a threat to systems and networks for several years. The usual methods of detecting a virus with a local virus scanner or their