Posts Tagged ‘Anti-Malware’

The old new way malware part 1

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

The old:

A few month ago, I receive an e-mail from a spammer with a title of “Video of Angelia Jolie XXX video,” knowingly what expected in the url, I click safely on the url. The site look similar every standard video player website like youtube. The video listed contain an explicit picture which only waiting for me to click on the play button to get the next frame. So I clicked. Once I click, a message pop up asking me to download Adobe_Player9.exe. So what else for me to do? I click it.

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Yara - identify and classify malware samples toolkit

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

This is a nice project start by Victor Alvarez which can be found at http://code.google.com/p/yara-project.

This project describe as a tool aimed at helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples.  This tool work similar to IDS system with a nice scripting support which allow the user to add complex signature to the rule set.