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Category: Cyber Security

2017-12-12

Risky Business Podcast: Using VMRay Analyzer for Incident Response

Recently, VMRay sponsored the 480th episode of the popular weekly information security podcast, Risky Business. On the podcast, Incident Response Expert Koen Van Impe, spoke to host Patrick Gray about how he uses VMRay Analyzer for automated malware analysis. Koen gave a great overview of the real-world challenges IR practitioners

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2017-09-05
Agentless Detection – Locard’s Exchange Principle Applied to Cybersecurity

Agentless Detection – Locard’s Exchange Principle Applied to Cybersecurity

Marketing departments of Cybersecurity vendors around the globe go into overdrive when they can shout from the rooftops that their solution is ‘agentless’. Sure, that sounds good, but why is this so important? And what is truly agentless? To appreciate the importance of an agentless approach, we’ll go old school
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2017-06-01
‘Close’ Doesn’t Count in Cyber Security

‘Close’ Doesn’t Count in Cyber Security

Even though enterprises spend millions every year on information security they still remain vulnerable to persistent cybercriminals in a world where cybercrime like ransomware is pervasive. Organizations cannot afford to do the “bare minimum” when it comes to threat analysis. As the saying goes, ” ‘close’ only counts in horseshoes
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2016-11-28

Threat intelligence sharing with MISP and VMRay

Sharing is caring. Nowhere is this more true than for defenders that need to be able to quickly and seamlessly share critical information about malware and the attackers behind them. In the jargon of our industry that means using TIPs (Threat Intelligence Platforms) to ingest, export and correlate IOCs (Indicators
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2016-07-11

Word macro uses WMI to detect VM environments

We recently came across an interesting malicious Word document that used an embedded Word macro to detect whether or not it was being opened inside a VM. If no VM was detected, the macro proceeded to attempt to download a payload (executable) to infect the machine. Let’s take a look
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2016-07-05

Custom Threat Scoring with VTI

A Deep Dive into Automated, Customizable Threat Scoring In this second blog post about what’s new in V 1.10 we drill down into our VMRay Threat Identifier (VTI) engine and its threat scoring. It automatically identifies and flags malicious behavior using VTI rules, generating an overall severity score of malicious
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2016-05-25

Powershell Ransomware – a PowerWare Deep Dive

Malware authors are always looking for an edge to evade detection and extend the useful life of their creations. In the constant cat-and-mouse game between malware authors and security vendors, malware authors must constantly revise and reinvent their product. They will consider anything they can do to avoid detection. Along
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2016-05-12

Eliminating the Observer Effect in Malware Analysis

We have a mission at VMRay to build the ultimate malware Panopticon with a twist. The original 18th century Panopticon design was conceived as a way to monitor inmates in an institution in such a way that they could never know where or when they were being observed – so
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2016-05-03

VMRay Analyzer 1.10 is here: STIX/CybOX, SIEM, PowerShell & more

We’ve just released V 1.10 and we’re well on the way to building the ultimate Panopticon for malware. To reach that goal with automated malware analysis and detection, three criteria must be met: The analyzer must scale The analyzer must avoid detection & evasion by the malware being analyzed The
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2016-05-02

7ev3n-HONE$T –Ransomware for the rest of us

The ransomware 7ev3n-HONE$T is a new version of an existing ransomware, 7ev3n, with a twist – a much lower ransom fee. Early this year, as reported in January by Graham Cluley, BleepingComputer and others, the original 7ev3n ransomware was spotted in the wild encrypting victims‘ files on Windows machines and
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