Reverse Engineering For Beginners – XOR encryption – Windows x64

Prologue In the previous blogpost, we reverse engineered a binary and extracted the password from within it. This binary however contained a plaintext password. This was good to start for beginners, but you won’t really find such types of binaries in today’s world. In real life, passwords are mostly obfuscated or encrypted. Most of the […]

Analysis of Malware: Detecting Behavior & Anti-Reversing Techniques

Scenario: One of our clients observed a suspicious behavior in a program and wanted us to analyze and identify if any malicious activities were being performed by the same. The program wasn’t detected by their anti-virus solution during ‘file access operations’. However, some unusual outbound network traffic triggered alerts from the network monitoring team. Filename […]