Refactored Handle Detection We have completely refactored THOR's malicious Handle detection. We now allow the use of regular expressions and combined all types in a single signature file named "malicious-handles.dat". Users can provide custom indicators by placing a...
THOR Remote Demo: Agentless Remote Compromise Assessment
We've made a short video demo to showcase the new THOR 10 feature called "THOR Remote", which allows you to perform compromise assessment scans on multiple remote systems - no agent or scripting required.
THOR 10 for AIX
We are working on a THOR scanner version that brings our well-known compromise assessments and thousands of YARA rules to IBM's AIX®. Subscribe here to get noticed once beta testing and a stable version is available. * no advertisements - just two emails, one for the...
THOR 10 Fusion Released
THOR 10 Fusion has arrived. It replaces our successful scanners THOR 8 and SPARK and combines the best of both worlds. It is a completely new code base that features all modules of our 4 year old compromise assessment flagship THOR 8 and the speed and extra features...
THOR 10 Fusion – Major Changes
In anticipation of our new scanner THOR 10 Fusion, we would like to show you some of the exciting new features and upcoming changes. Modes and Feature Cleanup We've reviewed and reworked all scan modes in order to clarify the overview of active modules and features...
Upcoming : THOR 10 “Fusion”
We are proud to announce the upcoming release of THOR 10 code named "Fusion". It will replace our scanners THOR 8 and SPARK before the end of this year. Both of the current scanners will still receive updates until the end of this year. THOR 10 "Fusion" combines the...
Antivirus Event Analysis Cheat Sheet v1.4
Download the newest version of our Antivirus Event Analysis Cheat Sheet here. --- Update 09.09.18 10:30am CET Thanks to Markus Neis, I've updated version 1.4 and created a version 1.5 just a few hours after my tweet. You can download version 1.5 here.
YARA Rules to Detect Uncommon System File Sizes
YARA is an awesome tool especially for incident responders and forensic investigators. In my scanners I use YARA for anomaly detection on files. I already created some articles on "Detecting System File Anomalies with YARA" which focus on the expected contents of...
Synergetic Effects of Network and Host Based APT Detection
People often ask me if they still need our host based scanner THOR now that they have bought a network appliance that already checks all content that goes into and leaves their network. I normally answer that it is not a question of one solution versus another, but a...
Splunk Threat Intel IOC Integration via Lookups
Today most security teams have access to a lot of different information sources. On the one hand they collect log data from different sources and try to correlate them in a useful way in so-called SIEM systems. On the other hand they receive threat information from...
APT Detection is About Metadata
People often ask me, why we changed the name of our scanner from "IOC" to "APT" scanner and if we did that only for marketing reasons. But don't worry, this blog post is just as little a sales pitch as it is an attempt to create a new product class. I'll show you why...
How to Scan for System File Manipulations with Yara (Part 2/2)
As a follow up on my first article about inverse matching yara rules I would like to add a tutorial on how to scan for system file manipulations using Yara and Powershell. The idea of inverse matching is that we do not scan for something malicious that we already know...