100 Days of YARA – Day 18: Yanluowang Ransomware

Another ransomware strain is known as Yanluowang. Here are some of my bookmarks that I've tagged as Yanluowang: https://pinboard.in/u:droberson/t:yanluowang/ This blog post by Symantec was very interesting to me, as it presented a lot of generic examples of post-exploitation activity that was observed by the operators of this ransomware: https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/threat-intelligence/yanluowang-ransomware-attacks-continue Particularly, this article mentions the …

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100 Days of YARA – Day 16: Public Services

Malware authors often abuse free or public services to distribute malicious content. They may host payloads on DropBox or Discord, Google Drive, PasteBin, or a number of services. Searching for the domains used by these services can uncover malware in surprising places. Ngrok ngrok is used to tunnel traffic through HTTP. Despite being a legitimate …

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