electron

Instrumenting Electron Apps for Security Testing

This is a re-posting of the original article "Instrumenting Electron Apps for Security Testing" that I have wrote on Doyensec

What is Electron?

The Electron Framework is used to develop multi-platform desktop applications with nothing more than HTML, JavaScript and CSS. It was initially developed for GitHub's Atom editor and since then it was used to create applications like Discord, Ghost, GitHub, Skype, Slack, Wire and a lot more. While for the traditional desktop...

Cerber Dropper Ransomware Analysis

Before the month ends (I’m sorry but my time was really sucked up by planning and developing the HackInBo’s CTF, that I hope you will enjoy) I would like to post this very small and brief analysis of the latest JavaScript dropper used by the Cerber Ransomware in its campaign. I would also like to thank the Hacktive Security’s guys for the following sample: Dropper: MD5 afd5aa687ed3931d39f180f8e15500e1 SHA1 11460389a303e58086a2b7dbdab02437fb001434 SHA256 8b00174be5f9dd6a703bc5327e1be4161cd3922ca9a338889717370b53d4ca71 Cerber Ransomware: MD5 2dd3bd1801989ff6625aa041761cbed3 SHA1 08f28d5a7d32528fdb2b386334669d6b2b4226cb SHA256 a27c202bffde364fc385e41a244649e8e7baaec97c44c45cd02bb59642e1fb0e This...