Tag: Fox-IT International blog

Decrypting Full Disk Encryption with Dissect

Author: Guus Beckers Back in 2022 Fox-IT decided to open source its proprietary incident response tooling known as Dissect. Since then it has been adopted by many different companies in their regular workflow. For those of you who are not yet familiar…

Android Malware Vultur Expands Its Wingspan

Authored by Joshua Kamp Executive summary The authors behind Android banking malware Vultur have been spotted adding new technical features, which allow the malware operator to further remotely interact with the victim’s mobile device. Vultur has also started masquerading more…

Memory Scanning for the Masses

Author: Axel Boesenach and Erik Schamper In this blog post we will go into a user-friendly memory scanning Python library that was created out of the necessity of having more control during memory scanning. We will give an overview of…

Reverse, Reveal, Recover: Windows Defender Quarantine Forensics

Max Groot & Erik Schamper TL;DR Introduction During incident response engagements we often encounter antivirus applications that have rightfully triggered on malicious software that was deployed by threat actors. Most commonly we encounter this for Windows Defender, the antivirus solution…

Threat spotlight: Hydra

This publication is part of our Annual Threat Monitor report that was released on the 8th of Febuary 2023. The Annual threat Monitor report can be found here. Authored by Alberto Segura Introduction Hydra, also known as BianLian, has been…