Introducing Kalipso: the new interactive GUI of the Stratosphere Linux IPS

Introducing Kalipso: the new interactive GUI of the Stratosphere Linux IPS

As the network grows, the possibilities of being infected raise proportionally. One of the most efficient ways to secure yourself is to monitor your own traffic. The Stratosphere Linux IPS and Kalipso are the tools that can help to do it fast and efficiently. In this blog we introduce Kalipso and how to use it to detect malicious behavior in the network traffic.

Attacker IP Prioritizer Program

Attacker IP Prioritizer Program

he Attacker IP Prioritization (AIP) algorithm was created in order to sort the huge amount of attacker’s IP addresses to help block them using a blacklist.  In the Aposemat project we started a research line called “Polonium in my IoTea” were we are trying to investigate the relationship between organized cyber crime groups (e.g.  FancyBear) and their use of IoT devices. In this investigation we needed to analyze thousands of IP addresses attacking our honeypots and quickly decide which ones were the most dangerous.The idea of the AIP algorithm was born from the need to sort the IP addresses of the attackers from a statistical point of view, and then compare those rated IPs to our more technical and in-depth attack research to find out if an IP is really part of an important attacker group or not.

Notes From The Lab: Sudden Increase of Traffic to Port 445

Notes From The Lab: Sudden Increase of Traffic to Port 445

Today @VessOnSecurity tweeted that they have seen an increase on the number of SMB attacks in their honeypot (See Figure 1). We checked our telemetry and indeed we saw an increase on the incoming traffic to our honeypots on port 445. We will describe in this blog post the observations from our telemetry.

Paper: A Study of Machete Cyber Espionage Operations in Latin America

On Wednesday, October 2, at the 29th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2019) in London, our researchers Veronica Valeros, Maria Rigaki, Kamila Babayeva and Sebastian Garcia will present the results of more than 3 years of studying and tracking the Machete APT in their talk “A Study of Machete Cyber Espionage Operations in Latin America”.

Hexa Payload Decoder Tool: A Tool To Automatically Extract and Decode Hex Data in C&C Servers

Hexa Payload Decoder Tool: A Tool To Automatically Extract and Decode Hex Data in C&C Servers

In this blog post we introduce the “Hexa Payload Decoder Tool”, a tool that is able to process a pcap file and return any decoded characters translated to English. This tool was developed to assist the network security analyst when working and interpreting data sent and received by command and control servers used by malware.

Upcoming Talk: A Study of Machete Cyber Espionage Operations in Latin America

On Wednesday, October 2, at the 29th Virus Bulletin International Conference (VB2019) in London, our researchers Veronica Valeros, Maria Rigaki, Kamila Babayeva and Sebastian Garcia will present the results of more than 3 years of studying and tracking the Machete APT in their talk “A Study of Machete Cyber Espionage Operations in Latin America”.

DEFCON 2019. Beyond Sandboxes. How to Execute IoT Malware and Analyze its Evolution

We presented a talk at the Packet Hacking Village in Defcon titled "Beyond Sandboxes. How to Execute IoT Malware and Analyze its evolution. We showed how we designed and deployed an IoT malware execution laboratory to run malware for months and how we analyzed it to find novel attacks.

Project Ludus - Smart Honeypot Manager for Collaborative Defense

Project Ludus - Smart Honeypot Manager for Collaborative Defense

In this blogpost we introduce our tool which uses honeypots as a defense mechanism based on the game theoretical model of behavior of the attackers. Ludus fully automates honeypot deployment and management and visualize results in the level of individual routers. [Read more]

IoT Honeypot Traffic Analysis Series. Analysis of Edimax IC-7113W, part 4

IoT Honeypot Traffic Analysis Series. Analysis of Edimax IC-7113W, part 4

In this IoT Honeypot Analysis Series, we focus on the traffic analysis of the Edimax IC-7113W camera. In this episode, we will continue with the analysis of the encrypted packets mentioned in the previous episode. Our goals for this blog post are:

  • to obtain the AES key from the Edimax server

  • to understand what happens with the communication after we obtain the AES key

  • to get a plaintext of the encrypted payload sent from the camera to the server

Summary of the Amparo-CERTUNLP Workshop in Neuquén, Argentina

On May 27-30 I participated as member of the CERTUNLP in a conference organized by the Government of Neuquén province in Argentina. Together with LACNIC in the frame of the Amparo Project we participated giving a workshop to other incident responders and members of CSIRTs. The event was very successful. The audience gathered individuals responsible for the security area of ​​many Argentine provinces as well as National Universities, representatives of local ISPs, banks and other public and private organizations. By Paula Venosa.

First Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO) 2019

On June 20th will take place in Stockholm the First Workshop on Attackers and Cyber-Crime Operations (WACCO) as part of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroSP). WACCO is a great initiative that provides the opportunity for research, discussions, and sharing on cyber-criminal activities.

IoT Malware Analysis Series. An IoT malware dropper with custom C&C channel exploiting HNAP

IoT Malware Analysis Series. An IoT malware dropper with custom C&C channel exploiting HNAP

On February 28th, 2019 we infected one of our devices with the malware sample that most AV detect as Mirai. However, it was a bash script downloader that obtains and exacute an ARM ELF binary to attack others using the HNAP vulnerability in order to infect new bots.

Analysis of an IRC based Botnet

This blogpost aims to give an insight of an IRCBased botnet describing the network behavior and showing the analysis of the C&C. By analyzing this botnet network traffic it was possible to identify the botmasters using an IRC channel and observe not only the conversation between them but also the orders they give to the bot.