More and more often, adversaries target and exploit Internet-facing appliances or devices with exotic or restricted operating systems. Users ask if there is a way to run a compromise assessment scan on these systems with the YARA rules used in THOR. Following up on...
We're glad to announce a new feature that allows users to enrich events generated by THOR with information from Virustotal. The feature is available in the full THOR v10.7 TechPreview and THOR Lite. It can be used in any scan mode: live endpoint scanning, lab...
In a report published on the 20th of December CrowdStrike published a report of a new technique exploiting the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability called ProxyNotShell. The called the new technique OWASSRF as it uses Outlook Web Access, CVE-2022-41080 and CVE-2022-41082...
The Follina 0day vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190) in Microsoft Windows is actively exploited in-the-wild and highly critical. This blog posts lists some important web resources and the signatures that detect exploitation attempts.Kevin's post contains links to tweets of...
We'd like to know your opinion on our products and therefore ask you to participate in our product surveys. Each of them takes between 2 and 5 minutes of your time, depending on how much you'd like to tell us.THOR Customer Satisfaction Survey You find the survey...
The Log4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in log4j is actively exploited in-the-wild and highly critical. This blog posts lists some important web resources and the signatures that detect exploitation attempts.LunaSec reported first on the vulnerability.Use this...
We have received reports from customers that were approached by service providers that offered compromise assessments with our scanner THOR. Subsequently, it appeared, however, that these providers used THOR Lite in their engagements and, when asked about this, argued...
Since THOR and THOR Lite are tools written for digital forensic experts, they can be difficult to use. There is often a steep learning curve in the beginning. We'd like to help new users pass these first steps in a playful way by providing a TryHackMe challenge in...
The newest version 10.6.11 of THOR for macOS now has support for Apple's M1 platform. The THOR scanner binary is now a "universal" binary that runs on both supported platforms. You can find a list of supported architectures and operating systems in the respective...
The following video shows a compromise assessment with our free THOR Lite scanner on a Microsoft Exchange 2019 server detecting ProxyShell and ProxyToken exploitation. We've done no post-editing in this video. You can jump to all findings using the video chapters....
Not long ago, we've created a pull request for the official YARA repository on Github, that would introduce new functions in the `math` module to improve the flexibility in cases in which a sample is heavily scrambled or obfuscated. These cases require further...
THOR TechPreview version 10.6.8 will introduce a completely new module named ETW Watcher, which runs in a separate thread and monitors the systems during a scan run. As its name indicates, the ETW Watcher module makes use of Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). So,...