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User consent bypass by browser extension : an adware case study
This article provides a comprehensive analysis of a little-documented threat, which is a Chrome extension distributed by a powershell script. Its objective is not to compromise the workstation, but to monetize user traffic...

Incident Response: Analysis of recent version of BRC4
During our latest incident response case we have discovered a recent sample of Brute Ratel C4 packed with Themida. BRC4 is a powerful Command and Control (C2) tool which allows to control targeted workstations through an executable agent...

WinAPI Hooking
This article focuses on the study of injection for hooking Windows API functions. We'll explore what hooking is, how it works and how it's implemented...

Brute Ratel BRC4
This article will not be a detailed malware analysis report on the features of Brute Ratel (BRC4), but rather a study focusing on several samples of the same version...

PEB Parsing & API Hashing
In this article we will look at how the API hashing technique works and how to defeat it...

Kardon
This is my first article on malware analysis. The sample analyzed is Kardon...