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2024 Threatscape report

As we step into 2024, we anticipate a year that is poised to set several significant precedents. In this blogpost, we provide our Threatscape report, presenting our predictions for the global threats that lie ahead in the upcoming year. These…

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9min
CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE
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An introduction to reverse engineering .NET AOT applications

About a month ago, we started seeing reports on activities from DuckTail , a cybercrime outfit reportedly based in Vietnam. Detonating one of the samples, we observed that a new account was being created on the analysis machine, followed by…

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12min
CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE
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Machine Learning to identify malicious strings in a file

Why bother with strings? When analyzing a new sample found “inthewild”, it may make sense to extract the strings within it to identify IP addresses, domains, log files or C&C server signatures. For example, if an Artificial Intelligence model such…

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9min
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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How many slices of pizza do you need to appear in MITRE?

“We don’t see you in MITRE.” “Your solution hasn’t even been benchmarked, so how can anyone know what you’re REALLY worth?” “Anyway, it’s impossible for a French player to be as good as the Americans…” … okay, okay, that’s enough…

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8min
OPERATIONS
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Taskloader at the root of a Pay-per-Install infection chain

In June 2023, we’ve observed multiple alerts that seemingly came from different sources. A quick search through our telemetry allowed us to identify multiple infected machines across our clients. Although they would sometimes present different behaviour, the initial infection vector…

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21min
CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE
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Simulate the activity of a brute-force attack

For the purpose of testing an unsupervised anomaly detection algorithm, we need a dataset with both benign and malicious authentication activities. We already have access to benign data, but we lack malicious attack events.</p> The question we will try to…

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3min
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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AI: Deep Learning & batch normalization

Embedding images and executable files Embedding images into a lower-dimensional representation is a blooming research field in Deep Learning. With a small vector representation of each image, many new tasks can be easily done afterward such as zero-shot learning and…

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6min
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Malwares detection: an innovative approach based on Deep Learning

Hibou is a malware detection module powered by deep learning. It works on Windows executable files (PE files) and gives, for each sample, a “score of potential maliciousness”. This state-of-the-art deep learning method to detect malicious files is now embedded…

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4min
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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Generate large-scale attacks without a fleet of machines

One of the recurring issues in artificial intelligence is gathering enough data to train your model. In our case, working with windows event logs is not an easy task, as there are no available datasets that correspond exactly to what…

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7min
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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PowerShell: the story of collaboration between AI and CTI teams

At HarfangLab, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) teams can combine their strengths to prevent and detect threats. In the past year, we have worked on all of the aspects of AI to enhance our malware detection,…

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6min
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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How to write idiomatically in RUST magically fixed my bugs

When using compiled languages, code cannot be run if it does not pass the compilation step, and for this reason, the compiler sometimes gets in your way. Sometimes, the compiler refuses the quick-and-dirty change you made to test an idea.…

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14min
RUST