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February 18, 2019

THREAT RESEARCH

JavaScript bridge makes malware analysis with WinDbg easier

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As malware researchers, we spend several days a week debugging malware in order to learn more about it. For that, we have several powerful and popular user mode tools to...

August 9, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

WinDBG and JavaScript Analysis

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This blog was authored by Paul Rascagneres. Introduction JavaScript is frequently used by malware authors to execute malicious code on Windows systems because it is powerful, natively available and rarely disabled. Our previous article on .NET analysis generated much interest relating to how to use WinDBG to analyse .js files. In this post we extend our description of […]

July 19, 2017

THREAT RESEARCH

Unravelling .NET with the Help of WinDBG

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This blog was authored by Paul Rascagneres and Warren Mercer. Introduction .NET is an increasingly important component of the Microsoft ecosystem providing a shared framework for interoperability between different languages and hardware platforms. Many Microsoft tools, such as PowerShell, and other administrative functions rely on the .NET platform for their functionality. Obviously, this makes .NET an enticing language […]