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APKatche Me If You Can Uncovering Obfuscation-as-a-Service for Malicious Android Applications Botconf 2020 Thursday | 14:20 – 14:50 Masarah Paquet-Clouston 🗣 | Vit Šembera 🗣 | Maria Jose Erquiaga | Sebastián García Hide away! A well-obfuscated malicious application can run on a device for a long time without detection, avoiding the-cat-and-mouse race between attackers and defenders. Still, how easy is it […]

The Winnti Group: an analysis of their latest activities Botconf 2020 Thursday | 13:50 – 14:20 Mathieu Tartare 🗣 The Winnti Group, active since at least 2012, is responsible for high-profile supply-chain attacks against the video game and software industries, as well as the healthcare and education sector. Some of their most notorious attacks were

A Proposed Civil Liability Framework for Disrupting Botnets, with a particular focus on Smart Devices Botconf 2020 Thursday | 13:20 – 13:50 Iain Nash 🗣 This paper proposes a legal methodology aimed at disrupting Botnets, whose nodes are mostly comprised of Smart Devices. The methodology allows for the attachment of civil liability to both the

Yara: Down the Rabbit Hole Without Slowing Down Botconf 2022 Thursday | 11:35 – 12:05 Dominika Regéciová 🗣 Terry and John are two malware analysts working for an unnamed antivirus company. Terry has worked there for many years, and he is helping John, who started recently, to learn more about their work. John is starting

Detecting emerging malware on cloud before VirusTotal can see it Botconf 2022 Thursday | 12:10 – 12:40 Anastasia Poliakova 🗣 | Andreas Pfadler 🗣 | Yuriy Yuzifovich | Ali Fakeri-Tabrizi | Gan Feng | Hongliang Liu | Thanh Nguyen In this session, we will present our approach for detecting newly emerging malware on a cloud platform and predicting its behavior, and doing so before VirusTotal or any

Warning! Botnet is in your house… Botconf 2022 Thursday | 14:00 – 14:40 Vitaly Simonovich 🗣 | Sarit Yerushalmi 🗣 Edit PDF Video

SandyBlacktail: Following the footsteps of a commercial offensive malware in the Middle East Botconf 2022 Thursday | 16:00 – 16:40 Aseel Kayal 🗣 | Mark Lechtik 🗣 | Paul Rascagnères 🗣 | Vasily Berdnikov Edit

Smoke and Fire – Smokeloader Historical Changes and Trends Botconf 2022 Thursday | 16:45 – 17:25 Marcos Alvares 🗣 Smokeloader (aka Sharik or SmokeBot) turned 10 in 2021! Few malware families make to this mark without collapsing or getting caught by law enforcement. For over a decade, Smokeloader has been deployed as part of distribution