VB2017 paper: Crypton – exposing malware’s deepest secrets

Computer scientists are notorious for a specific kind of laziness: the kind of laziness that makes them work really hard in order to avoid some other, often more boring, hard work.

Crypton

, a tool developed by

F5 Networks

researchers Julia Karpin and Anna Dorfman, is a great example of that: it aims to speed up the reverse engineering process by decrypting encrypted content found in a (malicious) binary.

Such a tool can be a great help in itself, but even better is the fact that Julia and Anna wrote a detailed description of the development of the tool in their VB2017 paper – which they then presented at the conference in Madrid.

Anna Dorfman and Julia Karpin describe Crypton at VB2017 in Madrid.

Today, we publish the paper in both

HTML

and

PDF

format; we have also uploaded the video of Julia and Anna’s presentation to our

YouTube

channel.