We constantly improve the quality of our products and services, add features and create new bundles. Follow ups with our customers showed that not all of these changes reach their attention. They are often surprised and excited to hear about these features, free tools...
We are glad to announce our new product MASTER ASGARD, a central control for a set of ASGARD systems. MASTER ASGARD is designed to control multiple instances of ASGARD, which itself supports up to 10,000 endpoint agents. Using MASTER ASGARD you are able to control...
We've just released an updated version of our Antivirus Event Analysis cheat sheet. You can download version 1.7 here.The major changes are:Updated AV signature listsSplit AV signature cells into two columns to save spaceFixed and added some directory namesExtended...
Our brand new ASGARD 1.7 comes with a shiny new feature: Evidence Collection The evidence collection feature allows you to collect files or main memory from connected end systems. The memory and file collection tasks provide a throttling option to reduce the upload...
A long time ago I've noticed that there is no single best YARA rule for a given sample, but different best solutions depending on the user's requirements and use case. I noticed that I often create 2 to 3 YARA rules for a single sample that I process, while each of...
As previously announced our YARA rule packs and feeds will be available in March/April 2019. We've put a lot of effort into a internal system named "Mjolnir" that parses, normalizes, filters, tags and automatically modifies our rule base, which contains more than 9000...
With the upcoming version 8.53 of THOR, we're testing a new feature called "Difference" or "Diff" mode (--diff). The idea behind "Diff" mode is that a scan could be much faster, if it would only consider elements that have been created or changed since the last scan...
Later this month the new version 2.2 of ASGARD Analysis Cockpit will be released. These are the most important new features. The Optimize Button The new "Optimize" button allows you to add all unassigned log lines to existing cases with matching filters. It is...
ASGARD features a new section since the last upgrade that you may have missed. It's called "Downloads" and contains a section in which you can configure a download link for scanner packages. In previous versions, the scanners have been accessible right from the login...
SPARK Version 1.17.0 adds extensive STIXv2 support.This allows you to easily extend SPARK's signature bases with IOCs from any sandbox, analysis or threat intel platforms that support STIXv2 export by placing the exported [cci]*.json[/cci] files in the...
Working in incident response or malware analysis, you may have come across compromised and sometimes revoked certificates used to sign malware of different types. Often threat groups use stolen certificates to sign their malware. I'd like to show you an easy way to...
As we have announced in May, the old "thor-upgrade.exe" is already out-of-support and the old update servers accessed by "thor-upgrade.exe" will be decommissioned at the end of October. The new all-round utility "thor-util.exe" now supports all of the features...