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Analysis of Valak Maldoc
Summary The Valak malware variant appears to be an emerging threat due to an increased volume of campaign activity by its operators. Besides its relative newness, Valak is also noteworthy for a few of its other operational aspects such as an interesting execution chain and some unconventional tactics leveraged in the VB macro script of…
Weekly News Roundup — May 31 to June 6
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Weekly News Roundup — May 24 to May 30
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Weekly News Roundup — May 17 to May 23
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Weekly News Roundup — May 10 to May 16
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Analysis of a Dridex Downloader with Locked Excel Macros
Summary I came across a fairly interesting Dridex maldoc the other day, and I figured it was worth doing a quick write-up on the obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques I saw. This was an Excel document that had its VBA macro project “locked” by the threat actor to disrupt analysis. Further anti-analysis included a heavy dose…
Weekly News Roundup — May 3 to May 9
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Weekly News Roundup — April 26 to May 2
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Weekly News Roundup — April 19 to April 25
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