In this post I was able to investigate a Hancitor/Pony/zloader malspam message. Looking around for some more information about this infection, I was able to find the following links: – Brad’s SANS ISC Blog post talking about this exact malspam: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/HancitorPonyVawtrak+malspam/21919/ – Hybrid Analysis’ report for another example of this…
For this blog post, I was able to infect my VM with Cerber from a link that I found via a Tweet that @malware_traffic retweeted from @Techhelplistcom. I am not able to determine how a user would get directed to this site though, so that part is a mystery. Overall,…
Here is an example of some Dridex malspam that I was able to analyze yesterday. As usual the artifacts and such can be found over in my Github repo found here. IOCs: ===== relish.net / 81.91.205.168 (Port 443) www1.relish.net / 81.91.205.167 (Port 443) u4593764.ct.sendgrid.net / 167.89.125.30 agfirstnz-my.sharepoint.com, prodnet329-325selectora0000.sharepointonline.com.akadns.net / 104.146.164.65…
Below is my write up of the latest exercise from Brad. There are two things that I learned from doing this exercise: 1) there is a difference between TCP Stream and HTTP Stream as there is more information available in TCP Stream, and 2) how to convert an encoded file…
Happy New Years to everyone! Hope that everyone had a great holiday break. For the first post of the year, here is an example of a Fareit/Pony (Suricata) or Phoenix/Zeus (Snort) trojan that I was able to find in the email filters. For more information about this malware please check…
Here is an example of a Crypt0L0cker infection that I got from my Twitter feed. Thanks go to @JAMESWT_MHT as he was the one that reposted the finding from @SettiDavide89. Below is my write up for this one. The artifacts from this investigation can be found in my Github repo.…
Here is another example of of the latest version of Locky that I saw being delivered via some malspam. This time the email poses as a certificate for a parcel being sent. For more information about this new version of Locky, please see the article over on Bleeping Computer or…
Brad has a new one out and I figured that I would take a break from studying to crank this one out. Artifacts for this exercise can be found here. Hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving this week! Executive Summary ================= Based on what is in the PCAP, there…
So it has been a while since I have updated the blog. The joys of trying to study for the SANS GCIA while also working and trying to squeeze in some time for the family as well. So I thought that I would pick up on the latest exercise that…
So it has been a while since I have written something for the blog so I apologize for that. With that being said, here is a quick example of some malspam leading to a Cerber3 infection. Like it’s previous versions, the delivery method for this one was via email with…