- Malware Assigning Descriptive Names to Malware - Why and How?
Security researchers assign descriptive names to high-profile malware based on file names, registry keys, or embedded strings—whoever coins the name that sticks gets bragging rights. Duqu was named...
- Incident Response The Adversarial Cycle of Computer Attacks and Defenses
The adversarial cycle has four phases: Attack (unfettered), Detect (forming response), Defense (attack rendered ineffective), and Mutate (attacker adapts). Defenders shorten Attack/Detect through...
- Malware Analysis 3 Free Tools to Fake DNS Responses for Malware Analysis
When analyzing malware behaviorally, intercepting DNS queries lets you redirect network connections to lab systems. Three free tools simplify this: ApateDNS (Windows), FakeDNS (Windows), and...
- Malware How Antivirus Software Works: 4 Detection Techniques
Antivirus tools use four main detection techniques: signature-based (static fingerprints of known malware), heuristics-based (suspicious characteristics without exact matches), behavioral (observing...
- Tools Using ICMP Reverse Shell to Remotely Control a Host
ICMP can create covert command-and-control channels that cross many firewalls since organizations often allow ping traffic. The icmpsh tool demonstrates this—a Windows victim issues ICMP echo-request...
- Malware NetworkMiner for Analyzing Network Streams and Pcap Files
NetworkMiner is a free Windows tool for network forensics that displays hosts, HTTP parameters, clear-text content, and credentials from live or captured traffic. It automatically carves files from...