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2020-06-17

Malware Analysis Spotlight: Phishing Site Spread through SMS

In this Malware Analysis Spotlight, the VMRay Labs looks at the behavior of a phishing site distributed through an SMS message. Based on the content of the SMS message, this does not seem to be part of a targeted attack but rather part of a massive phishing campaign that aims
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2020-06-15

SANS Webcast Recap: Dissecting Living off the Land Techniques

Living off the Land Binaries – aka LOLBins – represent one of the more creative and insidious malware threats today. Attackers use LOLBins to evade detection by manipulating legitimate systems and processes for malicious purposes. In this post—condensed from a SANS webcast featuring SANS Analyst Jake Williams and VMRay Sr.
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2020-06-08

Threat Bulletin: RagnarLocker Ransomware

In April 2020, the systems of Portuguese multinational energy giant Energias de Portugal (EDP) were encrypted by RagnarLocker Ransomware. The operators of RagnarLocker demanded a ransom of 1580 Bitcoin ($10.9M). Based on the ransom notes left on EDP’s systems (Figure 1) which directly mentioned the company, it’s clear that it
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2020-06-03

VMRay & Anomali: Deliver Seamlessly Integrated Threat Analysis & Intelligence

In April 2020, the systems of Portuguese multinational energy giant Energias de Portugal (EDP) were encrypted by RagnarLocker Ransomware. The operators of RagnarLocker demanded a ransom of 1580 Bitcoin ($10.9M). Based on the ransom notes left on EDP’s systems (Figure 1) which directly mentioned the company, it’s clear that it
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2020-05-14

Move Fast and Don’t Break Things (Part 2): Automated Malware De-obfuscation by Accurate API Monitoring

In our previous blog post, we showed how hypervisor-based API monitoring can achieve accurate logging of API calls at high performance, resulting in a more detailed view of the malware’s internal behavior. In this blog post we show three practical examples of how this more detailed view can be used
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2020-05-13

Investing in Cyber Security: Why It’s Important to Protect Your Company During a Pandemic

Below is a short video highlighting the importance of investing in cyber security during a time where more employees are working from home. By keeping company infrastructures from vulnerable attacks, cyber security has become a key component to help malicious attacks from happening.

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2020-05-13

Malware Analysis Spotlight: Rhino Ransomware

In this Malware Analysis Spotlight, the VMRay Labs Team examines the behavior of Rhino Ransomware (first identified in April 2020). This sample was found by Twitter user @GrujaRS on May 4th. View the VMRay Analyzer Report The first step before the ransomware encrypts user files, it disables various services: wscsvc
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2020-05-07

Partner Q&A: Protecting Critical Healthcare Infrastructure from Disruption

Healthcare facilities around the world are under overwhelming pressure right now as the COVID-19 pandemic is straining every facet of their organizations. Adding to this challenge is the fact that criminal organizations are showing no signs of letting up. INTERPOL warned that cybercriminals are increasingly attempting to ‘lockout hospitals out
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2020-05-06

VMRay Forges Distribution Agreement With ectacom GmbH

Leading Malware Detection Provider Signs First European Distributor Agreement to Expand Global Footprint and Support Double-Digit Sales Growth Bochum, Germany – May 6, 2020 – VMRay, a provider of automated malware analysis and detection solutions, today announced that it has signed a strategic distribution partnership with ectacom GmbH, a leading
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2020-05-04

Where Your Data is Stored and Why It Matters

It’s true all over the world – large enterprise organizations want flexibility and choice in where their data is stored. This is especially true in regulated industries such as health care, finance, and government that are bound by regulation and compliance to have control over where their data resides. For
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2020-04-22

VMRay Platform Version 3.3 Highlights

With the April rollout of VMRay Platform Version 3.3, we’re introducing major enhancements to our advanced threat detection and analysis solutions: A new naming convention – VMRay Platform – articulates the unified nature of our solutions, core technology, and individual products: VMRay Analyzer, VMRay Detector, and VMRay Email Threat Defender.
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2020-04-16

Move Fast and Don’t Break Things (Part 1): Accurate API Monitoring at High Performance

In designing systems, engineers often must navigate between two extremes. Resources are finite and compromises must be made between making something operate slowly and thoroughly or fast and recklessly. But what if a system could be both fast and accurate? Because of VMRay’s entirely hypervisor-based technology, it has the ability
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2020-04-16

VMRay Expands Executive Leadership Team to Fuel Next Stage of Growth

Noted Industry Veterans from Kaspersky and Symantec Join Fast Growing Malware Analysis Provider to Support Market Expansion Bochum, Germany and Boston, MA – April 16, 2020 – VMRay, a provider of automated malware analysis and detection solutions, today announced the addition of two cybersecurity veterans to its executive ranks with
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2020-04-07

Explained: The VMRay Threat Identifier (VTI) Scoring System

This post was updated on October 9, 2020 Please note: VMRay has recently simplified malware identification within our Platform with the Verdict system (read more about it here). This new Verdict system reduces the number of possible malware grading identifiers from eight to four (“Malicious”, “Suspicious”, “Clean”, and “Not Available”)
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2020-04-01

Good Apps Behaving Badly: Dissecting Zoom’s macOS Installer Workaround

This post was updated on April 3, 2020 to reflect Zoom’s response. It seems like overnight half the world switched to working from home and depending on Zoom for daily human interaction. Our own team is no exception, so it came as a surprise that the widely-used application installs itself
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2020-03-31

Stepping Up to Help During the Crisis

The global pandemic, and associated economic downturn, has created a new reality where our customers are now supporting a large remote work force, vastly increasing the available attack surface for threat actors. In addition, COVID-19 has opened up a whole new arena of themed scams and malware. In the face
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2020-03-31

Debunking The Four Most Common Fileless Attack Myths

As a senior executive for a malware analysis and detection provider, I get asked one particular question quite often: “can your solution protect against fileless malware?” It’s a confounding question in many respects and one that requires some amount of clarification as to what types of threats they consider to
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2020-03-25

SANS Webcast Recap: Practical Malware Family Identification for Incident Responders

Taxonomy is the science of naming, defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Fundamentally it’s an organization scheme that has allowed scientists to study organisms without confusion or overlap since the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus introduced his framework for a uniform naming system more than 300
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2020-02-21

Accelerating Incident Response with VMRay & MITRE ATT&CK

In this short video, we will demonstrate how security teams can leverage the mapping of VMRay’s analysis results to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for more effective incident response. ATT&CK is the industry-standard framework and knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques, threat groups, and related software and tools. The entire
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2020-02-18

VMRay Launches New Global Channel Partner Program

VMRay Makes its Leading Malware Analysis & Detection Platform Available to VARs and MDRs to Meet Growing Market Demand for Effective Security Against Advanced Threats Bochum, Germany – Feb 18, 2020 – VMRay, a leading provider of automated malware analysis and detection solutions, today announced the launch of the VMRay
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2020-01-29

2020 Outlook: Evaluating the Threat Landscape at the Dawn of a New Decade

The past decade has been one of unprecedented transformation, innovation, and uncertainty in the enterprise cybersecurity market. Five years ago, the Russian hacking group known as Sandworm succeeded in shutting down three power plants in Ukraine for several hours and demonstrated how targeted attacks could potentially disrupt the lives of
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2020-01-23

How Expel’s Analysts Are Using VMRay to Make Consistent, Sound Decisions

“Our analysts are really good at making decisions if they have the data to make that decision.” – Tyler Fornes, Sr. Response & Detection Analyst at Expel In this Risky Business podcast, host Patrick Gray interviews one of VMRay’s most forward-looking customers: Tyler Fornes, Senior Detection and Response Analyst for
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2020-01-22

Analyzing ZeroCleare’s Behavior Using a Malware Sandbox

View the VMRay Analyzer Report for ZeroCleare “ZeroCleare” is a new strain of malware discovered by IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) this past December. In the 28-page report, the IRIS Team revealed that ZeroCleare was used to execute an attack on Middle East organizations in the energy
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2020-01-14

How to Create Easy and Open Integrations with VMRay’s REST API

With the recent release of VMRay Analyzer Version 3.2, we have repackaged and enhanced our already robust REST API. These enhancements add more automation and scalability to malware analysis, detection, and result-sharing across heterogeneous environments. VMRay’s portfolio of out-of-the-box integrations and connectors built with our REST API, enables partners to
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2019-12-03

What’s New in VMRay Analyzer 3.2?

In VMRay’s first major product release since completing our Series B funding, we’ve introduced significant enhancements to VMRay Analyzer Version 3.2, our flagship platform for automated malware analysis and detection. Among the key capabilities announced, Version 3.2 expands and automates email analysis while complementing email protections already in place in
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2019-11-12

[SANS Webcast Recap] Evade Me If You Can: Unmasking Context Aware Malware

“Context is everything” goes the age-old adage. Malware has evolved in a variety of ways over the past few years but threat actors have increasingly focused more of their development efforts on making their malware sensitive to context in order to better identify and evade sandbox and analysis environments. In
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2019-10-21

VMRay IDA Plugin 1.1: Streamlining Deep-Dive Malware Analysis

A year ago this fall, we introduced the VMRay Analyzer IDA plugin for IDA Pro disassembler and decompiler. With Version 1.0 of the plugin (nicknamed IDARay), malware analysts and DFIR teams could use the output of VMRay Analyzer to enrich IDA Pro static analysis with behavior-based data. The plugin sped
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2019-10-09

VMRay Detector & Analyzer: A Single Pane of Glass for High-Volume Threat Detection and Analysis

According to Forrester, there will be 2 million job vacancies in the cybersecurity sector by 2022. This reality is the impetus for greater efficiency and achieving a significant improvement in the “signal to noise” ratio that security teams are dealing with. Automating malware analysis and detection on a large scale
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2019-10-02

[Risky Business Podcast] 3 Approaches that Evade Static Machine Learning Detection

This week, VMRay CEO & Co-Founder, Carsten Willems was a guest on the latest episode of the Risky Business Podcast. Carsten spoke with host Patrick Gray about VMRay’s supporting role in Endgame and MRG Effitas’ Static Machine Learning Evasion Contest at DEF CON this year. The contest required participants to
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2019-09-17

What’s Next for VMRay: Series B Funding Will Provide a Springboard to Unleash Innovation and Drive Growth

On September 16, VMRay announced it has closed its Series B round of funding in the amount of $10 million (€9 million), led by Digital+ Partners, one of the leading technology growth equity firms in Europe. To mark this milestone, VMRay co-founder Dr. Carsten Willems sat down with Chad Loeven,
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