Tag: malware analysis

2019-12-03
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
2019-11-12
“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
2019-10-21
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
2019-09-04
In July, VMRay released version 3.1 of VMRay Analyzer, our flagship platform for automated malware analysis and detection. Among several major enhancements, 3.1 mapped our existing VMRay Threat Indicators (VTIs) to MITRE ATT&CK, the industry-standard framework and knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques, threat groups, and related software and
2019-08-01
This content covered in the blog is based on my Objective By the Sea talk “Hypervisor-Based Analysis of macOS Malware”. You can access the slides from my presentation here. A Growing Threat and a Dearth of Tools Compared to Windows, macOS accounts for only a small percentage of all malware,
2019-07-10
Intelligent Monitoring captures everything that’s relevant and only what’s relevant, so your Security Team can focus on what’s most critical & essential. In explaining what had motivated his team to switch to VMRay Analyzer, a customer told us, “It’s not about getting our analysts started with malware analysis. It’s getting
2019-06-25

Ursnif is a group of malware families based on the same leaked source code. When fully executed Urnsif has the capability to steal banking and online account credentials. In this blog post, we will analyze the payload of a Ursnif sample and demonstrate how a malware sandbox can expedite the

URLs are a ubiquitous infection vector. Embedded in emails, documents, and webpages, they are encountered early and often in the infection cycle. In addition to hosting exploits and delivering malicious files, they also play a major role in concealing threats and attacks by misdirecting analysis tools and security professionals. To
In a recent major update of our flagship platform, VMRay Analyzer 3.0, we made dramatic improvements in the system’s memory dumping capabilities. In an automated approach we call smart memory dumping, VMRay Analyzer now triggers more frequent and more relevant memory dumps to capture a comprehensive view of malware characteristics
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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