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  • 21 February 2019 piotrb #malware #tools

    Strengthening our malware analysis capabilities

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    During last year we have collaborated with Hatching.io on improving the open source Cuckoo Sandbox. The main works were focused on porting advanced mechanisms for memory analysis which were developed internally by our team in the previous years. The public release of the onemon marks the last stage of …

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  • Detricking TrickBot Loader

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    TrickBot (TrickLoader) is a modular financial malware that first surfaced in October in 20161. Almost immediately researchers have noticed similarities with a credential-stealer called Dyre. It is still believed that those two families might’ve been developed by the same actor. But in this article we will not focus …

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  • Recommendations on mitigation of man-in-the-middle phishing attacks (evilginx2/Modlishka)

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    CERT Polska has observed an interesting phishing technique used in attack against users of a popular Polish content aggregator. We have also noticed the emergence of a new tool called “Modlishka” whose purpose is to simplify and automate phishing attacks. In this article, we describe the way these highly-automated attacks …

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  • 16 January 2019 CERT Polska #malware #mwdb #tools

    MWDB – our way to share information about malicious software

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    Analysis of current threats is one of the most common challenges facing almost any organization dealing with cybersecurity. From year to year, it also becomes a harder nut to crack, being undoubtedly influenced by the growing scale of activities undertaken by criminals and the degree of their advancement. In the …

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  • Dissecting Smoke Loader

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    Smoke Loader (also known as Dofoil) is a relatively small, modular bot that is mainly used to drop various malware families. Even though it’s designed to drop other malware, it has some pretty hefty malware-like capabilities on its own. Despite being quite old, it’s still going strong, recently …

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  • 09 July 2018 Michał Leszczyński #ctf

    Technical aspects of CTF contest organization

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    CTF competitions often turn out to be a great amusement, but they also play a very important role in training of IT security specialists. Such kinds of challenges are challenging both to contestants and organizers. This article will describe organizational aspects related to such competitions, taking European Cyber Security Challenge …

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  • 21 June 2018 pp #tools #n6

    n6 released as open source

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    We are happy to announce that another system developed by our team, n6 (Network Security Incident eXchange), has been released to the community on an open source licence. n6 is our in-house developed platform for automated gathering, processing and distribution of information on security threats. It acts as a data …

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  • Backswap malware analysis

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    Backswap is a banker, which we first observed around March 2018. It’s a variant of old, well-known malware TinBa (which stands for “tiny banker”). As the name suggests, it’s main characteristic is small size (very often in the 10-50kB range). In the summary, we present reasoning for assuming …

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  • Ostap malware analysis (Backswap dropper)

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    Malicious scripts, distributed via spam e-mails, have been getting more complex for some time. Usually, if you got an e-mail with .js attachment, you could safely assume it’s just a simple dropper, which is limited to downloading and executing malware. Unfortunately, there is a growing number of campaigns these …

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  • 30 May 2018 piotrb #secure #cfp

    SECURE 2018 – Call for Speakers

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    Call for Speakers for SECURE 2018 is now open. If you have an interesting topic and would like to share your ideas with a crowd of Polish and international IT security specialists, please consider submitting your proposal. You will find all applicable information below. SECURE 2018 will be held on …

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