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Stealers18 min read

Let's nuke Megumin Trojan

A reverse-engineering walkthrough of Megumin Trojan, a C++ malware sold on underground forums, and of what it can do.

2019 · May 03Read teardown

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An interactive essay on reading the world, and myself, the way I read a malware sample: a program with no manual, a malware report on that program with six findings (Fun included), a triage window, a trace log, a breakpoint and a git history. The skills I thought were obsolete still transfer, once I learn to export them.

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Lu0bot - An unknown NodeJS malware using UDP

An analysis of Lu0bot, a lightweight and previously unknown Node.js malware seen in early 2021 that talks to its server over UDP.

2021 · Jun 24Read teardown

Unpackers & Tools15 min read

Anatomy of a simple and popular packer

A walkthrough of a simple, widely used packer: its architecture, the PE stub and the shellcode stages that unpack the final payload.

2021 · Apr 24Read teardown