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Live Stream VOD: StrelaStealer Exposed

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In this Twitch stream we take a close look at an email stealer that has been flying under the radar for years and expose a small e-crime operation in the process! 

Due to your positive feedback on the past few VODs I have left in more of the stream banter. Things devolve a bit into a meme stream in the middle of th...

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Understanding PE Parsing for Reverse Engineers Part 1 - PE Headers

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This is the first in a four-part series on PE parsing from a reverse engineering perspective. In this tutorial we walk through the PE headers and demonstrate how to mark up code that is parsing these headers in IDA.

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Understanding PE Parsing for Reverse Engineers Part 2 - The Section Table

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This is the second in a four-part series on PE parsing from a reverse engineering perspective. In this tutorial we take a deep dive into the PE section table and discuss the difference between mapped and unmapped PE files.

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The following are links to the code that was used in the tutorial. These a...

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Understanding PE Parsing for Reverse Engineers Part 3 - Data Directory and Imports

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This is the third in a four-part series on PE parsing from a reverse engineering perspective. In this tutorial we explore parsing the PE import table. We also introduce a new structure PE_BASE to help with marking up pseudocode in IDA.

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Understanding PE Parsing for Reverse Engineers Part 4 - Data Directory and Exports

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This is the final tutorial in our four-part series on PE parsing from a reverse engineering perspective. In this tutorial we explore parsing the PE export table. We conclude the tutorial with a complete PEB walk example parsing the exports from NTDLL.

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Live Stream VOD: LegionLoader (OALABS Podcast?)

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This Twitch stream is a little chaotic... you aren't hearing voices... anyone from the Discord and Patreon is free to join in the conversation as we test a new interactive RE concept.

The voices you heard in no particular order...

Understanding The PEB for Reverse Engineers Part 1 - Accessing The PEB

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This is the first in a short two-part series on the Process Environment Block (PEB) and the Thread Environment Block (TEB). In this tutorial we introduce the PEB and the TEB and provide some background on how these data structures are accessed programmatically. We also provide some tips for identifying and marking up PEB acce...

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Understanding The PEB for Reverse Engineers Part 2 - Walking The PEB

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This is the second in a short two-part series on the Process Environment Block (PEB) and the Thread Environment Block (TEB). In this tutorial we focus on how a processes’ modules (DLLs) can be accessed via the PEB. We also introduce the concept of “walking the PEB”, the CONTAINING_RECORD macro, and shifted pointers.

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Live Stream VOD: in2al5dp3in4er Drops Aurora Stealer

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In this Twitch live stream we unpack in2al5dp3in4er loader which is using CreateDXGIFactory to detect sandboxes based on their lack of graphics card and triage its payload Aurora Stealer.

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Live Stream VOD: CryptNET Ransomware

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In this Twitch stream we take a look at CryptNET ransomware a ransomware written in .NET and protected with .NET Reactor.

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2e37320ed43e99835caa1b851e963ebbf153f16cbe395f259bd2200d14c7b775 

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Live Stream VOD: Automated XORStringsNet Decryptor

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In this Twitch stream we build an automated strings decryptor for the .NET XORStringsNet cryptor adopted by AgentTesla, Redline, and others.

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2023-04-22 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream VOD: Quasar Chaos

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In this Twitch stream we analyze a version of Chaos Ransomware builder that has been backdoored with Quasar RAT!


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Live Stream VOD: IcedID GZip Loader vs. Photo Loader

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In this Twitch stream we investigate the difference between IcedID's older photo loader and newer gzip loader. 

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Live Stream VOD: AresLoader Fun

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In this Twitch stream we have some fun reverse engineering all the stages in AresLoader. 

This VOD is a little wilder than our usual streams, I decided to leave in some more of the banter etc. You guys let me know if you want more of this or if you prefer the more edited cleaner streams?

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Live Stream VOD: 3CX Supply Chain Attack Malware Analyzed

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In this Twitch lives stream we reverse engineer the 3CX software backdoor and associated downloader chain.

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Live Stream VOD: VBScript Emulation Research Part 3 - Dumpulator Emulation!

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In this Twitch stream we complete our 3-part research series on emulating VBScript with a fully emulated VBScript running on Dumpulator.

Note: This is a research stream so it is long and progress is slow as I make a lot of mistakes, also near the end I'm so tired... but we prevail! 

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Live Stream VOD: VBScript Emulation Research Part 2 - Debugging VBScript.dll

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In this Twitch stream we continue our 3-part research series on emulating VBScript with a deep dive into the vbscript.dll.

Note: This is a research stream so it is long and progress is slow as I make a lot of mistakes while learning how all the components in the scripting engine work together.   View Post

Live Stream VOD: VBScript Emulation Research Part 1 - Emotet OneNote Malware

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In this Twitch stream we start our 3-part research series on emulating VBScript by looking at the new Emotet OneNote docs being used to execute WScript malware.

The first part of the stream we quickly triage the OneNote document, extract the WScript and manually deobfuscate the script.

The rest of the stream is de...

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Live Stream VOD: CryptBot Malware Triage

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In this Twitch stream we triage CryptBot a C++ INFOSTEALER that has been in operation since 2019.

The main focus of the stream is building a decent config extractor and a good yara rule for this malware but we have a little fun looking up its origins along the way.

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2023-03-19 01:01:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream VOD: QVoidStealer .NET Cringe

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In this Twitch stream we take a look at QVoid Stealer an open source .NET INFOSTEALER that has been dropped along with RedLine.

Set your expectations low for this one... really F-Tier stealer but we push through the cringe and write a Yara rule and a Config extractor.

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2023-03-19 00:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream VOD: PikaBot Part 3 (Config)

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In this Twitch stream we complete our analysis of PikaBot and write a static config extractor to pull out the PS loader code and C2.

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Live Stream VOD: PikaBot Part 2

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In this Twitch stream we complete our analysis of the PikaBot loader. We use Dumpulator and some IDA scripting to resolve all of the encrypted stack strings and the dynamic imports, then we analyze the functionality.

Note* at...

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PikaBot VOD: Part 1

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In this Twitch stream we take a look at a new loader called PikaBot! This stream is dedicated to the preparation of the binary for analysis, decrypting strings, resolving dynamic imports etc.

Note* We waste the majority of this stream trying to get the DLL to load in a debugger properly. The DLL is not ...

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Live Stream VOD: Yara Triage How-To with SoulSearcher Malware and a Mystery Worm

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In this Twitch stream we work through the process of triaging a bad Yara rule and disambiguating the relationship between SoulSearcher Malware and a mystery worm!

Yara Rule

Malpedia SoulSearcher 

Soul Se...

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Live Stream VOD: Unpacking .NET Deep Dive with Drakonia

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Fo this Twitch stream we are joined by special guest @dr4k0nia for a deep dive into .NET reverse engineering!

Drakonia takes us through multiple layers of unpacking while answering your .NET questions from chat. If you want to follow a...

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VOD Tutorial - Ransomware Decryption: How To Find and Exploit Crypto Flaws with @fwosar

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Special guest @fwosar gives us a live tutorial covering ransomware cryptography, and takes us through an example breaking ransomware and recovering encrypted files.

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The reference sample used in the Tutorial is GetCrypt ran...

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Live Stream VOD: Rhadamanthys Part 4 - Loader Final Stage C2 Extraction

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In this twitch stream we complete our config extractor for the final stage of the Rhadamanthys loader. 

Surprisingly most of the work can be done statically but we do use dumpulator to speed up a few things.

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Live Stream VOD: Rhadamanthys Part 3 - Stage 3 API Resolving

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In this twitch stream we take a look at Stage 3 of Rhadamanthys. This is the final stage of the loader. This stage is also position independent shell code and we spend the entirety of the stream marking up relative offsets and resolving APIs to make the code readable in IDA.

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2023-01-30 19:56:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream VOD: Rhadamanthys Part 2 - Emulating Shellcode

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In this twitch stream we take a look at Stage 2 of Rhadamanthys and use Dumpulator to create a simple unpacker. 

We spend the first hour marking up the Stage 2 shell code, the emulation work starts at the 1h 13min mark. 

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Packed Parent

2023-01-30 19:47:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Live Stream VOD: Rhadamanthys Part 1 - Stage 1 Shellcode and Shifted Pointers

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In this twitch stream we take a look at Rhadamanthys, a stealer malware that uses multiples stages of shell code to protect its payload. 

We start out unpacking the first stage but end up spending a lot of time trying to make a simple PEB walk look nice in IDA using Shifted Pointers. This is one tip that we shouldn...

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