Vaccination - An Anti-Honeypot Approach

BSidesLV 2017

Presented by: Gal Bitensky
Date: Wednesday July 26, 2017
Time: 17:00 - 17:55
Location: Breaking Ground

Malware often searches for specific artifacts as part of its "anti-­VM\analysis\sandbox\debugging" evasion mechanisms, we will abuse its cleverness against it.
The "anti-­honeypot" approach is a method to repel (instead of luring) attackers, implemented by creating and modifying those artifacts on the potential victim's machine.
Once the created artifacts are found by the malware - it will terminate.

The session will include motivations for attackers to use evasion techniques, some in-­the-­wild examples and effective countermeasures against it.
A short DIY­ vaccination live demo will be performed, including the execution and prevention of a live malware from recent cases (e.g. WannaCry, NotPetya\EternalPetya).

The script used in the demo to vaccinate the potential victim will be uploaded to GitHub and publicly shared under CC-BY-SA.

Gal Bitensky

A 29-year-old geek from Tel-Aviv, breaker of stuff. Currently working as a senior malware psychologist in the Israeli start-up Minerva labs. Experienced in various fields, ranging from web application security and Windows internals to SCADA. Fluent in exotic languages like PHP, Lisp and Arabic. Advocate of simple and effective solutions.


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