Analyzing a banking Trojan
ON Apr 17, 2014
In our effort to detect threats to the users of Android devices, we analyze a lot of malicious apps. This...
A Pipeline for Scalable Analysis Capability
ON Apr 16, 2014
An area where we spend quite some effort here at Lastline is scaling up our malware analysis capabilities, that is...
How To Build An Effective Malware Analysis Sandbox
ON Mar 27, 2014
Automated malware analysis systems (or sandboxes) are one of the latest weapons in the arsenal of security vendors. Such systems...
Lastline employees involved in top-tier Android research
ON Mar 20, 2014
Researchers from UCSB and University of Bonn recently published a paper on the risks incurred by dynamically loaded external...
Analyzing Environment-Aware Malware
ON Feb 19, 2014
A look at Zeus Trojan variant called Citadel evading traditional sandboxes Fighting traditional sandboxes (or dynamic analysis systems in general) typically...
Using High-Resolution Dynamic Analysis for BHO Trigger Detection
ON Feb 5, 2014
Looking at how malware analysis engines evolved over the last decade, the trend is quite obvious: Dynamic analysis systems are...
Automatically Detecting Evasive Malware
ON Jan 20, 2014
Malware has always been in continuous evolution: Throughout the years we have seen simple viruses become polymorphic, autonomous self-replicating code connecting to...
An Analysis of PlugX Malware
ON Dec 18, 2013
Authored by: Roman Vasilenko, Kyle Creyts Introduction There are a number of articles recently written about a Remote Access Trojan called PlugX or Korplug (with older variants...
Analysis of an Evasive Backdoor
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Authored by: Roman Vasilenko, Kyle Creyts The Initial Infection Vector - Nuclear Pack...