Category Archives: Anti-virus
A deeper look at Office documents flat style
Over the last few years I have seen some samples that use the xml style of Word Documents with base64 encoded ActiveMime data. What started this was a recent Twitter post by HunterMaor @bit_dam Here where he was not able … Continue reading
More on Yara And Building Rules
I’ve been learning how to build and modify yara rules lately but my biggest pain was getting the formattting correct. In a recent Twitter thread Here James @James_inthe_box posted where asyncrat was using pastebin to host their encoded rat. My … Continue reading
SunCrypt, PowerShell obfuscation, shellcode and more yara
This didn’t start as a blog post. It started as a conversation with Hari Charan @grep_security about something they were looking at called SunCrypt ransomware. Looking up the name I ran across a couple of interesting blog post, one by … Continue reading
Ursa Loader and the many rabbit holes
On August 4th 2020 JAMESWT @JAMESWT_MHT posted on Twitter here about malware spam hitting Italy using ursa loader. I mainly look at the obfuscation and this vbscipt looked rather interesting. Little did I know what I was in for. So … Continue reading
PowerShell Steganography
Any programming language that can have access to the pixels of a picture file can do a form of byte and pixel modification to hide data within the pixel bytes. The less of a degree you modify the pixel data … Continue reading
Extracting Shellcode from VBA to PowerShell
This post will revolve around using my tools to extract the vba code then clean a base64 string that is exploded into multiple lines and then decode to a PowerShell script then extract the shellcode from the script and get … Continue reading
More adventures with shell code and the Shikata Ga Nai Encoder
The other day I was given a sample vbscript file by Paul Melson @pmelson so I could take a look at the odd shell code in it. Here is the original script. This starts out as a normal script running … Continue reading
A quick look at the current emotet encoding
I have went thru several samples today of this type of encoding but todays sample will be from ExecuteMalware @executemalware located here and the Twitter reference is here. Here we can see that only 3 of the urls are displayed. … Continue reading
Chasing malware down the rabbit hole to see where it goes.
Lets start this journey with the blog post by Pondurance titled “777 RANSOMWARE COMBINES WITH TRICKBOT” located here. There is not a whole lot here but it describes 2 layers of shellcode and some indicator’s and the first is the … Continue reading
A deeper look inside one of the new Emotet Malware Docs
The sample here comes from a quick search supplied by ANY.RUN @anyrun_app of #emotet-doc to filter quickly on documents you want to look at. Twitter reference Here and the link to the file we are going to use Here. One … Continue reading
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