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Recently, we discovered a threat that abuses the Encrypting File System (EFS), which Symantec detects as Backdoor.Tranwos. Not only is it trivial for program code to use EFS, it’s also very effective at preventing forensic analysis from accessing the contents of the file.The threat creates the folder %Temp%\s[RANDOM ASCII CHARACTERS] and then calls the EncryptFileW […]

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Complete malware analysis is often limited by real-world circumstances. Many of the trojans that we analyze will attempt to connect to a remote server for further instructions. At this point, we know that the software is not legitimate and should be blocked from installation on our customer’s computers. We don’t really need to examine it […]

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