Malware461 SakDriver: Reversing a Windows Kernel Driver Rootkit
A reverse-engineering walkthrough of SakDriver, a Windows kernel-mode rootkit first mistaken for a Cobalt Strike Beacon. It patches ETW, hides processes via…
Malware461 A reverse-engineering walkthrough of SakDriver, a Windows kernel-mode rootkit first mistaken for a Cobalt Strike Beacon. It patches ETW, hides processes via…
Malware262 Comprehensive analysis of SolidPDFCreator.dll, a Mustang Panda stage-1 backdoor targeting India. This DLL-based loader drops malicious payloads to C:ProgramDataIDMlogs, registers persistent scheduled…
Malware206 A complete walkthrough of loading, disassembling, and decompiling raw Cobalt Strike shellcode in Ghidra, resolving ROR13 API hashes via Google lookup and…
Malware90 In June 2026, D3Lab documented an Italian-language phishing campaign that delivered a compound browser threat: a malicious Google Chrome extension paired with…
Debug58 This post tackles CFG and CET/Shadow Stack bypasses for sleep obfuscation. It registers ROP gadgets via NtSetInformationVirtualMemory, swaps TIB stack bounds instead…
Malware89 This post details the journey of hardening Adaptix C2's default agent DLL using Crystal Palace's Reflective DLL loader. It implements IAT hooking,…
Deep dive into Windows PE file format—headers, sections, and loader mechanics. Explains how security products (AV/EDR) detect malware via static analysis: entropy,…
Linux78 Scales is a Linux supply-chain malware that pairs an embedded eBPF rootkit with a built-in Tor client and aggressive credential theft. This…
Exploit Development50 Eleven months after RarLab shipped WinRAR 7.13 to fix CVE-2025-8088, two Russia-aligned APT clusters (Earth Dahu / Gamaredon and SHADOW-EARTH-066 / UAC-0226)…
Malware81 A practical walkthrough of using Ghidra and x32dbg to disassemble a Cobalt Strike beacon shellcode, identify the PUSH/CALL EBP hash-then-dispatch pattern, resolve…
BYOVD62 Between 2025 and 2026, BYOVD attacks completed a fundamental paradigm shift: from exploiting known-vulnerable drivers to abusing legitimately-signed drivers and certificates themselves.…
Malware52 Fox-IT (NCC Group) details RemotePE, a North-Korean Lazarus in-memory RAT delivered through a three-stage chain — DPAPILoader (environmentally-keyed first-stage), RemotePELoader (HellsGate /…