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		<title>Using WinDbg to Begin Reverse Engineering Unknown Malware from Memory</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2011/06/13/using-windbg-to-begin-reverse-engineering-unknown-malware-from-memory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkforensics.com/2011/06/13/using-windbg-to-begin-reverse-engineering-unknown-malware-from-memory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 03:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Golomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part Two in a multi-part series on holistic, multi-disciplinary analysis and reversing. &#160; The last post, &#8220;Mutex Analysis: The Canary in the Coal Mine,&#8221; started off showing to use mutexes to discover malware that is difficult to locate using more traditional methods and tools. We used a live compromised system for the example and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutex Analysis: The Canary in the Coal Mine (and Discovering New Families of Malware?)</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2011/06/11/mutex-analysis-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-and-discovering-new-families-of-malware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Golomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part One in a multi-part series on holistic, multi-disciplinary analysis and reversing. This post is based on a presentation I gave at the last Thotcon, but was really prompted by a case from a couple days ago. It&#8217;s an interesting example of how the same disciplined methodologies for finding malicious traffic on the network also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissecting the CVE-2011-0611 Flash Player Zero Day &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2011/04/13/dissecting-the-cve-2011-0611-flash-player-zero-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkforensics.com/2011/04/13/dissecting-the-cve-2011-0611-flash-player-zero-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the past few days,  We&#8217;ve seen the emergence of a new zero-day attack that involves flash files embedded into word documents.   These have purportedly been used in an attempt to compromise machines belonging to government-affiliated persons, as detailed here: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/04/new-adobe-flash-zero-day-being-exploited/ http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2011/04/apr-8-cve-2011-0611-flash-player-zero.html As detailed in previous posts,  NetWitness tries to stay away from &#8220;signature&#8221; based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Network Forensics and Reverse Engineering Part 2 – A deeper dive into real JavaScript analysis and reverse engineering</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2011/01/12/network-forensics-and-reverse-engineering-part-2-%e2%80%93-a-deeper-dive-into-real-javascript-analysis-and-reverse-engineering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkforensics.com/2011/01/12/network-forensics-and-reverse-engineering-part-2-%e2%80%93-a-deeper-dive-into-real-javascript-analysis-and-reverse-engineering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 03:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Golomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction In our first post in the forensics and reversing series, we examined why HTTP gzip content encoding is a larger and more serious problem than most people realize. We’ll use the end of the first post as a starting point for analysis in this post. It also serves as an example of something far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber-Crime or Cyber-Espionage?</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2011/01/03/cyber-crime-or-cyber-espionage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Krebs posted an article on his blog this morning that documents a recent spam attack on U.S. government employees that occurred around christmas time. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/01/white-house-ecard-dupes-dot-gov-geeks/ which has in-depth technical coverage at: http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2011/01/general-file-information-file-card.html Using a very simple ruse of &#8220;Merry Christmas from the White House&#8221;, this message used the common &#8220;ecard&#8221; social engineering hook to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VM Detection by In-The-Wild Malware</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/12/13/vm-detection-by-in-the-wild-malware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/12/13/vm-detection-by-in-the-wild-malware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Golomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Motivation   A large number of security researchers use Virtual Machines when analyzing malware and/or setting up both active and passive honeynets. There a numerous reasons for this, including: scalability, manageability, configuration and state snapshots, ability to run diverse operating systems, etc.. Malware that attempts to detect if it’s running in a Virtual Machine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying the country of origin for a malware PE executable</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/11/25/identifying-the-country-of-origin-for-a-malware-pe-executable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/11/25/identifying-the-country-of-origin-for-a-malware-pe-executable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Golomb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update 11/29/10: Added a short discussion about non-malware executables also. Have you ever wondered how people writing reports about malware can say where the malware was likely developed? Sometimes you get totally lucky and log files created by the malware will help answer the question. Given the following line from a log: 11/16/2009 6:41:48 PM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bredolab Takedown – Just the tip of the Iceberg</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/11/04/bredolab-takedown-%e2%80%93-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/11/04/bredolab-takedown-%e2%80%93-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post discusses the Bredolab trojan and the findings from a 3-month NetWitness investigation which clearly show that Bredolab is much, much more than an advanced trojan threat. Bredolab is actually part of a multi-faceted profit center leveraging dynamic techniques to stay ahead of detection systems such as anti-virus and serve multiple constituencies' criminal activities.]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes the answer really is that simple&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/10/26/sometimes-the-answer-really-is-that-simple/</link>
		<comments>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/10/26/sometimes-the-answer-really-is-that-simple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early this year, we were challenged by our CEO Amit Yoran to take this perpetual battle against Malware to the next level.  Easily, one of the most common use cases today of NetWitness Nextgen, is the combating of various forms of commercial and custom malicious code.  The goal of helping our customers optimize their efforts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Ponemon Advanced Threat Study</title>
		<link>http://www.networkforensics.com/2010/07/09/ponemon-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eddie Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge of what’s really happening on your network is critical if you are responsible for the protection of your organization’s information assets.  Depending upon where you work and what you believe about both the capabilities of your security team and those of the adversary, you live somewhere on the spectrum of “really concerned about advanced [...]]]></description>
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