PowerShell Downloader – Emotet

Today I wanted to do a real quick post on a PowerShell downloader linked to Emotet. Here is a little background on what Emotet is according to Malwarebytes: Emotet is a Trojan that is primarily spread through spam emails. The infection may arrive either via malicious script, macro-enabled document files, or malicious link. Emotet emails […]

Black Energy – Analysis

So today I wanted to do a blog post on Black Energy. The sample I will be working with was sourced from hybrid analysis here: https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/39d04828ab0bba42a0e4cdd53fe1c04e4eef6d7b26d0008bd0d88b06cc316a81?environmentId=4. This particular piece of malware was used to target the networks used to control power grids and has been associated to the Sandworm Team, who used it to also […]

Rig Exploit Kit – Vidar Behavioral Analysis

Today I wanted to do a quick behavioral analysis of Vidar. This particular piece of malware I downloaded from https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/2019/01/10/index2.html and is part of the Hookads campaign that is using the Rig Exploit Kit to push Vidar. So lets get started… So what I will be doing is fairly straight forward. I will first setup my […]

Basic Dynamic Analysis Pteranodon.bin – Gamaredon Group

So today I wanted to do a blog post on an executable SHA-256: 408e38b4d81de63e5762dcb8024f81360b426429821f9934b087aa0a6b44c56f that has been tied back to the Gamaredon Group, in my research. I pulled it down from @0xffff0800 .onion website http://iec56w4ibovnb4wc.onion/Library/GamaredonGroup/. Thank you @0xffff0800 with sharing these samples with the community! A little background on who the Gamaredon Group is. According […]

UNPACKING SHADE (TROLDESH) RANSOMWARE

Today I wanted to do a blog post on unpacking Shade (Troldesh) ransomware md5 7F9D970C685F7F33AA8A961F2A10173D. The sample I used was acquired from here. Troldesh is a crypto ransomware variant that was created in Russia. So the short story is it will encrypt your files and try to extort money from you. The technique I used on […]