January 2008 - Posts

Annual Report 2007 PandaLabs

Posted by Luis Corrons at  17 January 08 09:59     We have just released the Annual report PandaLabs 2007, which summarizes the most important events of the last year. Inside you will find interesting information regarding trends on malware, among other current topics. Additionally, we have also included

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Stealth techniques in rootkits

Posted by Xabier Francisco at  11 January 08 09:21     Some days ago MR Team members warned that a new stealth technique was being used by some rootkits. When this type of malware is run in a system, it makes a copy of the original MBR in the absolute sector 62 of the hard disk and overwrites the one existing

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New Year, new patches

Posted by Ismael Briones at  09 January 08 05:18     Microsoft has released its patches for this month. There are two patches: one critical and another rated as important. The critical patch involve Windows TCP/IP and the important one is for a vulnerability in LSASS. As always, it's important to upgrade

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Proactive Detection Rates

Posted by Luis Corrons at  08 January 08 06:04     Today I've seen in Sophos blog a post about the proactive detection rate. Here you can see the results from the same test, but including the majority of the vendors, so you won't lose any information: Scanner TOTAL July August September =======================================================

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Automatic classification of malware (II)

Posted by Luis Corrons at  03 January 08 12:05     Some months ago we showed you a tool based on graphs in order to classify malware. Today we'll show you another tool that we are currently using in the lab to determine whether a file is malware or goodware. This tool is called VMatchBinary. Basically,

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