Evolution of Malware Sandbox Evasion Tactics – A Retrospective Study

mood · Sep 9, 2019

Evolution of Malware Sandbox Evasion Tactics – A Retrospective Study
September 9, 2019
https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com...andbox-evasion-tactics-a-retrospective-study/

Malware evasion techniques are widely used to circumvent detection as well as analysis and understanding. One of the dominant categories of evasion is anti-sandbox detection, simply because today’s sandboxes are becoming the fastest and easiest way to have an overview of the threat.

Historically, sandboxes had allowed researchers to visualize the behavior of malware accurately within a short period of time. As the technology evolved over the past few years, malware authors started producing malicious code that delves much deeper into the system to detect the sandboxing environment.

As sandboxes became more sophisticated and evolved to defeat the evasion techniques, we observed multiple strains of malware that dramatically changed their tactics to remain a step ahead. In the following sections, we look back on some of the most prevalent sandbox evasion techniques used by malware authors over the past few years and validate the fact that malware families extended their code in parallel to introducing more stealthier techniques.
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Rasheed187 · Sep 14, 2019

You can also use this to trick malware into thinking they are being run in a sandbox, HMPA does offer such a feature.

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Evolution of Malware Sandbox Evasion Tactics – A Retrospective Study

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Evolution of Malware Sandbox Evasion Tactics – A Retrospective Study

mood Updates Team

Rasheed187 Registered Member

IT threat evolution Q3 2019

Autumn Aperture: Threat Campaign Highlights New Evasion Technique using an Antiquated File Format

IT threat evolution Q2 2019

DealPly Adware Abuses Microsoft Smartscreen to Boost AV Evasion

FIN8 – Cybercrime gang adds new tactics to credit card data-stealing campaign

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