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Indicator Removal: Timestomp Defense Evasion [Mitre] Anti-Forensic
Timestomping is a technique used by adversaries to modify the timestamps of a file, such as the modify, access, create, and change times. This technique is often used to hide the fact that a file has been modified or created by the adversary, making it more difficult for forensic investigators or file analysis tools to detect the changes.
By modifying …
Time Bomb Others Sandbox Evasion
Some malware contains a built-in expiration date, after which the malware will no longer run or function. This can be used by attackers to limit the time during which the malware can be detected and analyzed by security researchers. In order to run and analyze the malware after its expiration date, security researchers must manually change the date on the …
Unloading Sysmon Driver Anti-Monitoring
Sysmon is a tool that can be used to monitor system activity on Windows systems. It records various types of events, such as process creation, network connections, and registry changes, and stores them in the Windows Event Log. Security analysts can use this information to detect and investigate malicious activity on a system.
One way that malware can evade detection …
Entry Point Modification Process Manipulating
The entry point is the starting point of an executable file during execution. Some malware use techniques such as changing or relocating the real entry point to protect their code from analysis. This makes it difficult for security software to identify and detect the malware as the code is not executed in the usual way.
Change Module Base Address at Runtime Process Manipulating
It is possible to change the DllBase of a module at runtime. This can trick debugging and analysis tools such as IDA or Cheat Engine into thinking a module's base is actually at another address.
This is achieved by accessing the process PEB's member 'Ldr', in particular it has a member InOrderMemoryLinks which we can iterate through to get a …
Change Module Name at Runtime Process Manipulating
It is possible to change the name of the current process or any of its modules at runtime. This is achieved by accessing the process PEB's member 'Ldr', in particular it has a member 'InOrderMemoryLinks' which we can iterate through to get a list of the process's modules.
On each iteration it gets a PLDR_DATA_TABLE_ENTRY structure to work with which …
BobSoft Mini Delphi Packer Packers
The Delphi programming language can be an easy way to write applications and programs that leverage Windows API functions. In fact, some actors deliberately include the default libraries as a diversion to hamper static analysis and make the application "look legit" during dynamic analysis.
The packer goes to great lengths to ensure that it is not running in an analysis …
GetForegroundWindow Sandbox Evasion
This technique uses the GetForegroundWindow and Sleep APIs to attempt to evade sandboxes. Many sandboxes do not alter the foreground window like a user would in a normal desktop environment.
It accomplishes this by making a call to GetForegroundWindow, which returns a handle to the current window. Then the malware sample will sleep for a short time, followed by another …
Process Injection: Process Doppelgänging Defense Evasion [Mitre]
Adversaries may inject malicious code into process via process doppelgänging in order to evade process-based defenses as well as possibly elevate privileges. Process doppelgänging is a method of executing arbitrary code in the address space of a separate live process.
Windows Transactional NTFS (TxF) was introduced in Vista as a method to perform safe file operations. To ensure data integrity, …
Hijack Execution Flow: Services Registry Permissions Weakness Defense Evasion [Mitre]
Adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the Registry entries used by services. Adversaries may use flaws in the permissions for Registry keys related to services to redirect from the originally specified executable to one that they control, in order to launch their own code when a service starts. Windows stores local service configuration information in the Registry …