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A Walkthrough for FLARE RE Challenges

September 22, 2014May 20, 2025 Brian Baskin

The FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering (FLARE) challenge was causing a bit of a buzz when it was announced and launched in early July. It read like a recruitment campaign for a new division within FireEye, but still a fun challenge to partake in. The challenge started … and I was on-site at a client …

Malware with No Strings Attached Part 2 – Static Analysis

February 17, 2014May 20, 2025 Brian Baskin

In the previous post I showed some dynamic analysis procedures for a variant of a trojan known to Symantec as Coreflood. Based on the dynamic analysis, we discovered that the analyzed sample contained very few strings of use. It decrypted an embedded executable, which was injected into memory for execution. It dropped an encrypted file to …