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  • VB2018 preview: Unpacking the packed unpacker: reversing an Android anti-analysis library

    Seven years ago, the first VB conference paper on Android malware looked at what was then a new, but growing trend. Since then both the threat and the research community have grown enormously, and every VB conference since has featured several talks on Android malware. VB2018 is no exception. One of this year’s Android talks…

  • VB2018 preview: Unpacking the packed unpacker: reversing an Android anti-analysis library

    Seven years ago, the first VB conference paper on Android malware looked at what was then a new, but growing trend. Since then both the threat and the research community have grown enormously, and every VB conference since has featured several talks on Android malware. VB2018 is no exception. One of this year’s Android talks…

  • Paper: Not old enough to be forgotten: the new chic of Visual Basic 6

    Marion Marschalek looks at two Miuref binaries: one packed with Visual Basic 6 and one with C++. Two months ago, Microsoft announced it had added ‘Miuref’ to its Malicious Software Removal Tool. First discovered in December 2013, Miuref is a click-fraud trojan that silently makes a browser ‘click’ advertisements that are controlled by those running…

  • IEEE announces Anti-Malware Support Service

    ‘Software taggant system’ and ‘clean file metadata exchange’ discussed at previous VB conferences. Wouldn’t it be nice if providers of software packers included a licence key in the packer, so that anti-malware solutions could distinguish legitimate from malign use – and, if needed, blacklist those keys used by malware authors? And wouldn’t it also be…

  • Security experts gather in Europe

    Anti-malware insights pooled at AMTSO, CARO and EICAR meetings. Many of the world’s leading anti-malware and security experts came together in the past week, at a string of meetings and conferences being held in Europe. Global bodies the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation (AMTSO) and the Computer Anti-Virus Researchers’ Organization (CARO), and the pan-European experts group…