Malware Analysis

HijackLibs provides an curated list of DLL Hijacking opportunities: mappings between DLLs and vulnerable executables, with additional metadata for more context. For defenders, this project can provide valuable information when trying to detect DLL Hijacking attempts; for red teamers, this project can help identify DLLs that can be used to achieve DLL Hijacking.

Sogen is a high-performance Windows user space emulator that can emulate windows processes. It is ideal for security-, DRM- or malware research.

BLint is a Binary Linter to check the security properties, and capabilities in your executables. Since v2, blint is also an SBOM generator for binaries. - owasp-dep-scan/blint

A tool for studying JavaScript malware

revng: the core repository of the rev.ng project

Core emulator components for Icicle

GoResolver is a Go analysis tool using both Go symbol extraction and Control Flow Graph (CFG) similarity to identify and resolve the function symbols of an obfuscated Go binary. - volexity/GoResolver

FortiGuard Labs reverse engineers a malware’s binaries to look into what the malware is actually doing.…

Streamlined Public YARA Rule Collection

Dynamic unpacker based on PE-sieve.

Download regshot for free. Regshot is an open-source (LGPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.

Virtualization is a powerful technique for code obfuscation, and reversing it can be challenging. In this post, we cover the work done during an internship on developing an automated devirtualization tool. We explore a simplified taint-based approach and discuss its limitations. For a more in-depth analysis, the full report is also made available.

BLint is a Binary Linter to check the security properties, and capabilities in your executables. Since v2, blint is also an SBOM generator for binaries. - owasp-dep-scan/blint

SEMA is based on angr, a symbolic execution engine used to extract API calls. Especially, we extend ANGR with strategies to create representative signatures based on System Call Dependency graph ...

This blog will share a tried and tested method for dealing with thousands of unknown functions in a given file to significantly decrease the time spent on analysis while improving accuracy. Once all theory is covered, an instance of the Golang based qBit stealer is analyzed with the demonstrated techniques to show what happens when the theory is put into practice.

Static deobfuscator for Themida/WinLicense/Code Virtualizer's mutation-based obfuscation. - ergrelet/themida-unmutate

Elastic Security detection content for Endpoint.

Note: Volexity has reported the activity described in this blog and details of the impacted systems to CERT at the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in India. In 2024, Volexity identified a cyber-espionage campaign undertaken by a suspected Pakistan-based threat actor that Volexity currently tracks under the alias UTA0137. The malware used in these recent campaigns, which Volexity tracks as DISGOMOJI, is written in Golang and compiled for Linux systems. Volexity assesses with high confidence that UTA0137 has espionage-related objectives and a remit to target government entities in India. Based on Volexity’s analysis, UTA0137’s campaigns appear to have been successful. DISGOMOJI appears to be exclusively used by UTA0137. It is a modified version of the public project discord-c2, which uses the messaging service Discord for command and control (C2), making use of emojis for its C2 communication. The use of Linux malware for initial access paired with decoy documents (suggesting a […]

A simple commandline application to automatically decrypt strings from Obfuscator protected binaries - cod3nym/Deobfuscar

A simple crossplatform heuristic PE-analyzer.

This blog entry provides an analysis of the Noodle RAT backdoor, which is likely being used by multiple Chinese-speaking groups engaged in espionage and other types of cybercrime.

Elastic Security Labs observed threat actors masquerading as recruiting firms to deploy a new malware backdoor called WARMCOOKIE. This malware has standard backdoor capabilities, including capturing screenshots, executing additional malware, and reading/writing files.

A command line Windows API tracing tool for Golang binaries. - leandrofroes/gftrace

An analysis of a diverse dataset of Windows malware extracted from more than 100,000 samples revealing insights into the most prevalent tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Sigma rules from Joe Security.

This article provides an in-depth look into two techniques used by Earth Freybug actors: dynamic-link library (DLL) hijacking and application programming interface (API) unhooking to prevent child processes from being monitored via a new malware we’ve discovered and dubbed UNAPIMON.

A list of useful tools for Malware Analysis (will be updated regularly) - ashemery/malware-tools

Automated static analysis tools for binary programs - cmu-sei/pharos