We've made some changes to VALHALLA and released version 1.1 and valhallAPI version 0.5 to reflect these changes.The new modified date shows when this rule has last been modified. See this example.The modified date will also appear in the JSON feed and metadata of...
New Features: Progress Bar and HTML Report Filter Functions
We would like to inform you about three new comfort features that will be available in the upcoming THOR versions including THOR Lite. Improved HTML ReportsThe new HTML reports allow analysts to filter elements that turn out to be false positives and remove them from...
Performance Refactoring in THOR v10.5.9 and THOR TechPreview v10.6.2
We are glad to announce significant performance improvements in the latest versions of THOR. We've refactored several processing units to bulk scan elements that have previously been checked each at a time. These changes affect the modules "Eventlog", "Registry",...
THOR 10 Legacy for Windows XP and Windows 2003
We've been working on a legacy version of our scanner THOR 10 for a while and started our closed BETA, which is available to all current customers on special request. The THOR legacy version does not include the following modules/features: Module: Eventlog scanning...
THOR Forensic Lab License Features
THOR version 10.6, which is currently available as TechPreview, introduces several new features that facilitates the use of THOR in a digital forensics lab. Since not all of the features provided with the "Forensic Lab" license type are well-known, we would like to...
There’s a Thunderstorm Coming
We are proud to announce a groundbreaking new scan mode named "Thunderstorm" that we've integrated into preview builds of the upcoming THOR version 10.6. This mode of operation turns THOR into a RESTful web service that is able to process thousands of samples per...
THOR v10.6 TechPreview
We are proud do announce the version 10.6 of THOR, which is the first one that gets released as a TechPreview. We've discussed the split-up into THOR and THOR TechPreview in a previous post. The following post describes the most important new feature of the THOR...
Introduction THOR TechPreview
Since its early days, THOR has always been focused on stability and detection rate. With the early module and feature set, we never had to make a compromise. However, during the last 1-2 years, we had to make some decisions on the integration of new features and...
Use THOR in CrowdStrike Falcon Real Time Response
One of our customers has successfully deployed THOR using CrowdStrike's Falcon Real Time Response. Falcon's Real Time Response provides a remote shell that is very similar to Microsoft Defenders ATP's Live Response, which we've already combined with THOR Cloud...
Sigma Scanning with THOR
Our compromise assessment scanner THOR is able to apply Sigma rules during the local Eventlog analysis. This can help any customer that has no central SIEM system or performs a live forensic analysis on a system group that does not report to central monitoring. By...
New VALHALLA Web Features
The newest update of our popular YARA rule feed named VALHALLA adds new features to its web interface. The most awaited new feature is a keyword search that allows you to query the database for certain keywords, rule names, reports, MITRE ATT&CK ids or tags. The...
Web Proxy Event Analysis Cheat Sheet
The "Web Proxy Event Analysis Cheat Sheet" can help SOCs and security analysts classify proxy events (blocks, alerts) and is based on my ideas and many ideas from experts that helped me collect detection ideas for this document. You can download version 1.0 here. We...