It seems malware writers using exclusion lists is not something new, but it’s still concerning people. To me it’d be a pretty obvious avenue, especially if you were crafting something a little more nefarious than average – like APT malware (Advanced Persistent Threat) tools. Definitely a chicken and egg problem, especially with Windows if you […]
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Androguard – Reverse Engineering & Malware Analysis For Android
Androguard is a toolkit built in Python which provides reverse engineering and malware analysis for Android. It’s buyilt to examine * Dex/Odex (Dalvik virtual machine) (.dex) (disassemble, decompilation), * APK (Android application) (.apk), * Android’s binary xml (.xml) and * Android Resources (.arsc). Androguard is available for Linux/OSX/Windows (Python powered). Features Map and manipulate DEX/ODEX/APK/AXML/ARSC […]
Android Devices Phoning Home To China
So unsurprisingly a security researcher found some cheap Android devices phoning home to China when buying a phone to travel with. One of the phones seems to be Blu R1 HD, which is ‘Currently unavailable’ on Amazon.com and customers that bought it have received security update e-mails. Security researchers have uncovered a secret backdoor in […]
Linux kernel.org Hacker Arrested After Traffic Stop
So it seems the alleged kernel.org hacker has finally been caught, kinda by accident after being stopped for a traffic violation. It was quite a high profile hack, especially in the open source community as anyone downloading kernel files during that period could have theoretically been compromised. It’s unlikely the kernel code was actually tampered […]
CuckooDroid – Automated Android Malware Analysis
CuckooDroid is an extension of Cuckoo Sandbox the Open Source software for automating analysis of suspicious files, for Android malware analysis. CuckooDroid brings to Cuckoo the capabilities of execution and analysis of android applications. CuckooDroid provides both static and dynamic APK inspection as well as evading certain VM-detection techniques, encryption key extraction, SSL inspection, API […]