Introduction Hey, my name is David De Lille, I'm a student in computer engineering at the university of Ghent, and I just finished an internship at NVISO. In this blog post, I want to give a quick roundup of how I experienced my 6 weeks as an intern at NVISO. Why NVISO? I kind of [...]
NVISO at BruCON 2013
Before anything else, we want to thank everyone that joined us at BruCON. We hope everyone enjoyed the conference as much as we did! Although we have a lot of faith in the team that developed our technical challenge, we did not anticipate such a turnout! Over the two days, more than 50 BruCON participants [...]
Step by step analysis of an Android malware sample
Over the last couple of weeks, we have received quite a few user-submitted Android application samples (.apk files) through our online scanning service ApkScan. The auto-generated analysis reports have already highlighted some interesting results, and we have observed a broad range of malicious activities launched by the uploaded samples: from premium rate phone scams to [...]
New ApkScan features
Since our last post on the beta release of ApkScan, we have been working on a couple of new features. This includes the following: A screenshot is now taken during dynamic analysis and added to the report. A risk rating is added to the top of each report. The report overview page now supports dynamic [...]
ApkScan beta released
Yesterday we released the first version of ApkScan! For those who can't wait to run some of your Android applications through the scanners, ApkScan can be found at http://apkscan.nviso.be/. Two example reports generated by ApkScan can be found here and here. More details after the screenshot. As we mentioned during a previous blog post, ApkScan [...]
Mitigation strategies against cyber threats
So it's been a good 2 months since we have been in business! We thought we’d to take some time to reflect on these two months, in which we've seen quite some interesting security news including the well-known Mandiant report on APT1 and the widespread Java chaos. Last week, ENISA published a "Flash Note" on Cyber [...]
Introducing ApkScan
Two weeks ago, we presented our Android malware research at the SANS Community Night. One of the presentations discussed the development of ApkScan, a service we are developing to facilitate the distributed malware analysis of Android samples. Although already quite a few (online) malware analysis services already offer Android malware analysis reports, we feel like [...]
SANS Belgium Community Night
Our first blog post! As previously announced, we were organizing our SANS Community Night last week Thursday in the Brussels NH Hotel (Sablon). After a busy day of SANS courses (Pieter and Erik lectured the SEC 542 class), it was time for NVISO to take the stage at 18:00. Given the timing of the event, we [...]
