Malware Analysis Archives - Page 9 of 12

2018-02-07

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

Malware Analysis Product Features

2018-02-01

[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

Malware Analysis

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

Malware Analysis

2017-12-05

VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap – November ’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 November, our team analyzed a malicious Javascript file, the Ordinypt wiper, and a variant of the XZZX Cryptomix ransomware. Click the

Malware Analysis

2017-11-07

VMRay Malware Analysis Report Recap – October ’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 October, our team analyzed a Word document using a sandbox evasion technique, the execution of shellcode via Dynamic Data Exchange, and

Malware Analysis

2017-10-18

DDE Ransomware in a Macro-less Word Document

Malware Family: Vortex SHA256 Hash Value: bd61559c7dcae0edef672ea922ea5cf15496d18cc8c1cbebee9533295c2d2ea9 View the Full VMRay Analyzer Report Macros in Microsoft Office have been used extensively by malware authors as a mechanism to download and execute a malicious payload on a system. Defensive measures introduced by Microsoft such as disabling macros by default have not

Malware Analysis

2017-10-17

Persistent Emotet Malware with a Crafty Social Engineering Technique

Malware Family: Emotet SHA256 455be9278594633944bfdada541725a55e5ef3b7189ae13be8b311848d473b53 View the Full VMRay Analyzer Report With security ever more tightly integrated into operating systems, malware authors often rely on the unwitting participation of an end user to enable malicious action. Social engineering techniques have evolved significantly over the years and last week the VMRay

Malware Analysis Product Features

2017-10-05

6 Ways Intelligent Monitoring Improves Malware Analysis Accuracy & Efficiency

This is the second blog in a two-part series describing how VMRay Analyzer’s Intelligent Monitoring capabilities remove the noise from malware analysis. Read part one. VMRay Analyzer’s hypervisor-based monitoring approach provides total visibility into the behavior of a sample under analysis and enables monitoring only parts of the system related

Malware Analysis Product Features

2017-09-27

Intelligent Monitoring: Removing the Noise from Malware Analysis

This blog post is the first in a two-part series describing how VMRay Analyzer’s Intelligent Monitoring capabilities remove the noise from malware analysis. In dealing with potentially malicious files, incident responders and IT security teams are swamped with information in the form of log files, reports, alerts, and notifications. As

Malware Analysis Product Features

2017-09-21

Preventing Sandbox Evasion with Randomized Filenames

In the malware analysis community, it is common to rename a malware sample to its hash value or add the hash to the filename. This helps analysts easily identify a sample and to store it with a unique filename. This strategy saves time and empowers collaboration. A drawback, however, is

products

use cases

Find yours

Why VMRay

Customer Success Stories

By CAtegory

Featured Integration

Insights

Latest Malware Analysis Spotlight

NEWS

ABOUT US & CONTACT

CAREERs

Category: Malware Analysis

Uncover the truth of Cybersecurity, one story at a time

Subscribe to our Newsletter

Subscribe to our Newsletter:

Solutions

Products

Why VMRay

Resources

Missed the headlines?

We’re featured in:

ThreatFeed

products

use cases

Find yours

Why VMRay

Customer Success Stories

By CAtegory

Featured Integration

Insights

Malware Analysis Reports

cybersecurity glossary

Latest Malware Analysis Spotlight

NEWS

ABOUT US & CONTACT

CAREERs