Malware Analysis
Forensics CheatSheets
https://www.jaiminton.com/cheatsheet/DFIR/#
Online Services
Offline Antivirus and Detection Tools
Yara
Install
Prepare rules
Use this script to download and merge all the yara malware rules from github: https://gist.github.com/andreafortuna/29c6ea48adf3d45a979a78763cdc7ce9 Create the rules directory and execute it. This will create a file called malware_rules.yar which contains all the yara rules for malware.
Scan
YaraGen: Check for malware and Create rules
You can use the tool YaraGen to generate yara rules from a binary. Check out these tutorials: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
ClamAV
Install
Scan
Capa detects potentially malicious capabilities in executables: PE, ELF, .NET. So it will find things such as Att&ck tactics, or suspicious capabilities such as:
check for OutputDebugString error
run as a service
create process
Get it int he Github repo.
IOCs
IOC means Indicator Of Compromise. An IOC is a set of conditions that identify some potentially unwanted software or confirmed malware. Blue Teams use this kind of definition to search for this kind of malicious files in their systems and networks. To share these definitions is very useful as when malware is identified in a computer and an IOC for that malware is created, other Blue Teams can use it to identify the malware faster.
A tool to create or modify IOCs is IOC Editor. You can use tools such as Redline to search for defined IOCs in a device.
Loki
Loki is a scanner for Simple Indicators of Compromise. Detection is based on four detection methods:
Linux Malware Detect
Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around the threats faced in shared hosted environments. It uses threat data from network edge intrusion detection systems to extract malware that is actively being used in attacks and generates signatures for detection. In addition, threat data is also derived from user submissions with the LMD checkout feature and malware community resources.
rkhunter
Tools like rkhunter can be used to check the filesystem for possible rootkits and malware.
FLOSS
FLOSS is a tool that will try to find obfuscated strings inside executables using different techniques.
PEpper
PEpper checks some basic stuff inside the executable (binary data, entropy, URLs and IPs, some yara rules).
PEstudio
PEstudio is a tool that allows to get information of Windows executables such as imports, exports, headers, but also will check virus total and find potential Att&ck techniques.
Detect It Easy(DiE)
DiE is a tool to detect if a file is encrypted and also find packers.
NeoPI
NeoPI is a Python script that uses a variety of statistical methods to detect obfuscated and encrypted content within text/script files. The intended purpose of NeoPI is to aid in the detection of hidden web shell code.
php-malware-finder
PHP-malware-finder does its very best to detect obfuscated/dodgy code as well as files using PHP functions often used in malwares/webshells.
Apple Binary Signatures
When checking some malware sample you should always check the signature of the binary as the developer that signed it may be already related with malware.
Detection Techniques
File Stacking
If you know that some folder containing the files of a web server was last updated on some date. Check the date all the files in the web server were created and modified and if any date is suspicious, check that file.
Baselines
If the files of a folder shouldn't have been modified, you can calculate the hash of the original files of the folder and compare them with the current ones. Anything modified will be suspicious.
Statistical Analysis
When the information is saved in logs you can check statistics like how many times each file of a web server was accessed as a web shell might be one of the most.
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