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2019-03-25

SANS Webcast Recap: Dissecting Popular Malware Evasion Techniques

Like a modern Superbug that has grown resistant to conventional antibiotics, malware today has evolved rapidly and become increasingly complex. While much has been written about malware’s ability to evade sandboxes, little has been made of the specific techniques malware authors are employing to evade detection. In this post—condensed from
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2019-03-07

Reducing Incident Response Times with Splunk Adaptive Response

Typical enterprise security architectures involve tools and products from multiple vendors. An unfortunate reality is these tools and products are not designed to work together out-of-the-box. The Splunk Adaptive Response Framework solves this challenge by connecting all of these products through pre-configured actions. Security teams using the VMRay Add-On for
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2019-03-05

VMRay Analyzer 3.0: Raising the Bar for Automated Malware Analysis & Detection

With today’s release of VMRay Analyzer 3.0, we’ve set a new standard of performance and accuracy with our flagship solution for automated malware analysis and detection. With version 3.0 security teams can quickly analyze and detect advanced, zero-day and targeted malware—and initiate incident response—stopping attacks and threats that other technologies
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2019-02-27

How CyberInt Uses VMRay to Stay One-Step Ahead of Threat Actors

Israeli cybersecurity company CyberInt provides Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services using an innovative approach that leverages both inside-out and outside-in visibility into a customer’s infrastructure. We’ve recently partnered with CyberInt to provide their customers with rapid detection at scale for the tens of thousands of malware samples they see
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2019-01-23

Are You Ready for the Next Attack? 5 Tweaks to Your Incident Response Plan

Guest post by Limor Wainstein, Technical Writer & Editor at Agile SEO. IT security professionals have to deal with preventing and managing a variety of network security risks in their daily work, including cybercrime, the compromise of sensitive data, and service outages. The first line of defense is always prevention,
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2019-01-08

Now, Near, Deep: The Power of Multi-Layered Malware Analysis & Detection

For malware authors, an important part of their strategy is to drown target organizations with a fire hose of constantly changing information. SOC teams struggle to keep pace with attackers’ ability to rapidly generate new malware variants, new URLs leading to infected websites, and new C2 (command & control) server
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2018-12-18

SANS Webcast Recap: Infection to Remediation – Exploring the InfoStealer Kill Chain

While InfoStealers are hardly new, some recent developments have made them far more pervasive, more sophisticated, and more challenging to detect. In this post—condensed from a SANS webcast that he participated in— VMRay Product Manager Rohan Viegas along with SANS analyst Jake Williams discuss the mechanics of how InfoStealers work,
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2018-11-29

Analyzing Location-Based Malware with Geo Anonymization

Malware authors regularly create campaigns to target victims in specific countries. Recent examples using location-based malware include two campaigns that delivered banking trojans to customers of financial institutions in Brazil and the Danabot malware campaign that targeted users in Australia and Europe. Such attacks are often meticulously crafted. The phishing
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2018-11-27

6 Best Practices for your Malware Sandbox Proof of Concept

Any time you incorporate a major new component—such as a sandbox platform—into your security ecosystem, it’s important to do a rigorous, side-by-side evaluation of competing products to determine the best choice for your situation. But a proof of concept is about more than detection rates and vendor scores. It’s also
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2018-11-15

SANS Webcast Recap: Dissecting GandCrab Ransomware

GandCrab is one of the most prevalent ransomware families in 2018. In this post—condensed from a SANS webcast that he participated in— VMRay Product Manager Rohan Viegas discusses the fundamental techniques GandCrab uses to encrypt user’s files and basic detection methods that can provide the first line of defense against
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2018-10-16

How Expel Gets Answers, Not Alerts

Using VMRay Analyzer to get a full picture of attacker activity Tyler Fornes, a Senior Security Analyst at Expel, explains how his team uses VMRay Analyzer to quickly analyze suspicious or malicious files that have been identified in a client’s environment. The most significant result: Investigation times can be cut

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2018-10-10

How VMRay Analyzer Powers MSSPs & MDRs

“The information VMRay Analyzer surfaced was exactly what we needed.” A little while ago our team traveled down to Herndon, VA to visit the offices of our partner Expel and hear first hand how they were using our technology for their MSSP offering. Expel’s CTO Matt Peters explained to us
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2018-10-10

Effectively Responding to a Security Breach with Cb Response

In our recent Partner Perspectives blog post with Carbon Black, we detailed how our out-of-the-box integration with Cb Response allows Computer Incident Response Teams (CIRTs) to be more effective with incident response and proactiveness during threat hunting. To further demonstrate our integration, we created a short video showing how Cb

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2018-10-03

Introducing the IDA Plugin for VMRay Analyzer

In this blog post, we’ll walk through the first version of the VMRay Analyzer IDA Plugin, which uses the output of VMRay Analyzer to enrich IDA Pro static analysis with behavior-based data. The plugin adds comments to dynamically-resolved API calls within IDA to show the resolved function, its parameters, return
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2018-09-18

Improving Cyber Resilience with VMRay + InQuest

About InQuest InQuest provides a data acquisition and analysis platform. Providing network defenders with capabilities to block attacks, detect sophisticated breaches, discover sensitive data leaks, and hunt for otherwise unseen campaigns. Built out of necessity and touting a feature-set driven by seasoned SOC analysts with over 15 years of hands-on
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2018-09-02

DEF CON CTF Finals: An Inside View

Hello everyone, My name is Tobias Scharnowski (@ScepticCtf). I’m a student employee at VMRay and a member of FluxFingers, the official Capture the Flag (CTF) team at Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), supported by VMRay and also part of the German team, Sauercloud. This August, my FluxFingers teammates and I traveled
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2018-08-21

How to Use Interactive Malware Analysis with VMRay Analyzer

[Editor’s Note: This post was updated on May 19th, 2020] In the daily war against malware authors, incident response teams (CIRTs) need a comprehensive yet versatile sandbox as part of their automated malware analysis process. This provides the performance, scalability, and accuracy needed to handle the onslaught of malware-related threats.
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2018-08-07

Forgotten MS Office Features Used to Deliver Malware

According to Microsoft’s 2016 Threat Intelligence Report, 98% of Office-targeted threats use macros. So, shouldn’t we just focus our efforts on detecting threats that leverage macros? Of course not. Attackers will constantly innovate. Finding ways to bypass existing security solutions and making malware easy to execute are top of mind
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2018-07-13

VMRay Analyzer v2.3: Pairing Superior Performance with Exceptional Detection Efficacy

At the core of VMRay Analyzer is our dynamic analysis engine. Built on an agentless hypervisor-based approach, it delivers unparalleled detection efficacy and evasion resistance. In Version 2.0, we added a rapid reputation engine allowing malware analysts and incident response (DFIR) professionals to quickly identify not only known threats but
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2018-06-18

How Parallel Lives Converged to Create VMRay

In hindsight, it looks like Carsten Willems and Ralf Hund, the co-founders of VMRay, were destined to follow the same path for an extended period in their lives. Since first meeting in 2007, they have studied alongside each other, collaborated on groundbreaking research, started a company (VMRay), based in their
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2018-06-05

The Evolution of GandCrab Ransomware

[Editor’s Note: This post was updated on July 9th, 2018 with analysis of Gandcrab v4] Like legitimate commercial software, commercial malware also needs a viable business model. For ransomware, the most popular business model is now Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS). RaaS focuses on selling ransomware as an easy-to-use service, opening up a
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2018-05-22

Beyond the EU, GDPR Creates New Risks and Obligations

At the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, I spent a good deal of time meeting with VMRay partners to discuss their preparations for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The regulation, which takes effect on May 25, creates a new framework for safeguarding the personal data and privacy rights
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2018-03-19

Risky Business Podcast: VMRay Analyzer 2.2’s Unparalleled Usability & Seamless High-Volume Analysis

VMRay’s agentless hypervisor-based analyzer was featured on the latest Snake Oilers episode of the Risky Business podcast. I spoke to host Patrick Gray about the guiding philosophy for VMRay Analyzer 2.2: to deliver unparalleled usability and effectiveness for all DFIR specialists and malware analysts, regardless of skill level. We also
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2018-03-07

VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap – February 2018

Welcome to the VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap. Every month our Research Team provides a recap of the malware analysis reports posted to the VMRay Twitter account. This past February, our team analyzed Black Ruby ransomware, Cobalt Strike Beacon and a Javascript file attempting to detect VMs via the registry.

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2018-02-15
VMRay Analyzer 2.2 – An Improved User Experience for Malware Analysts and Incident Responders

VMRay Analyzer 2.2 – An Improved User Experience for Malware Analysts and Incident Responders

At VMRay, our underlying malware detection and analysis technology clearly sets us apart from the competition. With the release of VMRay Analyzer 2.2, we’ve focused on: improving the user experience enhancing our detection efficacy and providing more valuable threat intelligence to malware analysts and incident responders. The latest release has
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2018-02-07
VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap – February 2018

VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap – January 2018

Welcome to the VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap. Every month our Research Team provides a recap of the malware analysis reports posted to the VMRay Twitter account. This past January, our team analyzed a variant of BigEyes/Lime ransomware, GandCrab ransomware and Lotus Blossom malspam. Click the links below to jump
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2018-02-01
[Video] Analyzing a Payload Out of Context

[Video] Analyzing a Payload Out of Context

Malware authors have become creative with how they have chosen to package their payload to evade detection. Office documents have been used as a common vector of entry in the following way: a Word document uses a macro to launch PowerShell and download a malicious payload. While detonating the original
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2018-01-31
VMRay Analyzer Adds Sophos URL Threat Intelligence Service for Enhanced Detection of Malicious Websites

VMRay Analyzer Adds Sophos URL Threat Intelligence Service for Enhanced Detection of Malicious Websites

Our core belief at VMRay is to provide DFIR Specialists and Incident Responders with the most comprehensive analysis on the market. Since the introduction of our Reputation Engine in VMRay Analyzer 2.0, we’ve delivered a comprehensive one-two punch for analysts to quickly diagnose and triage malicious files. Today, we are
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2018-01-12
Our Statement on Spectre and Meltdown

Our Statement on Spectre and Meltdown

Spectre and Meltdown are attack methodologies enabled by fundamental processor design principles. In particular, they exploit unwanted side effects of caching, speculative/out-of-order execution, and branch target prediction. These features are part of most modern CPUs (Intel, AMD, ARM) and were widely introduced into production in the 1990s to enhance performance.
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2018-01-09

VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap – December ’17

Welcome to the VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap. Every month our Research Team provides a recap of the malware analysis reports posted to the VMRay Twitter account. This past December, our team analyzed a variant of Globeimposter ransomware, a Windows Script File (WSF) that downloads a payload to set-up a
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