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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...
Remarks on Products and Services
We constantly improve the quality of our products and services, add features and create new bundles. Follow ups with our customers showed that not all of these changes reach their attention. They are often surprised and excited to hear about these features, free tools...
50 Shades of YARA
A long time ago I've noticed that there is no single best YARA rule for a given sample, but different best solutions depending on the user's requirements and use case. I noticed that I often create 2 to 3 YARA rules for a single sample that I process, while each of...
YARA Rule Sets and Rule Feed
As previously announced our YARA rule packs and feeds will be available in March/April 2019. We've put a lot of effort into a internal system named "Mjolnir" that parses, normalizes, filters, tags and automatically modifies our rule base, which contains more than 9000...
STIXv2 Support in SPARK
SPARK Version 1.17.0 adds extensive STIXv2 support.This allows you to easily extend SPARK's signature bases with IOCs from any sandbox, analysis or threat intel platforms that support STIXv2 export by placing the exported [cci]*.json[/cci] files in the...
Short Tutorial: How to Create a YARA Rule for a Compromised Certificate
Working in incident response or malware analysis, you may have come across compromised and sometimes revoked certificates used to sign malware of different types. Often threat groups use stolen certificates to sign their malware. I'd like to show you an easy way to...
New Feature: THOR-util and SPARK-Core-util Signature Encryption
The new THOR-util version 1.2.4 supports the encryption of your custom signatures so that you can deploy your own IOC files and YARA rules in an encrypted form. We use a public key in the utilities to encrypt the files for our scanners so that admins, Antivirus...
ASGARD IOC Management
The upcoming ASGARD version 1.5 comes with a IOC management section in which you can manage your own set of IOCs in text files, YARA and Sigma rules.You can then select each of the folders when creating a new scan run with THOR or SPARK. Selecting one of these folders...
YARA Rule Creation Crackme
I’ve collected some interesting samples for an internal YARA rule creation training session with our interns. With this blog post, I'll also share 3 new premium feed YARA rules by pushing them to the Open Source signature-base repo. What are the the preliminary...