Advanced Malware Analysis
When our analysts encounter something in your environment that behaves hostile but matches nothing known, it goes to our malware team. We establish what it does, how it persists, what it talks to and what it was built to achieve, down to the techniques behind each stage of its execution.
Method
The binary is examined without running it. Structure, imports, embedded strings, compilation artefacts and code patterns are pulled apart to identify what the sample is built from and who it resembles. Packed and obfuscated samples are unpacked and the recovered code deconstructed, because concealment is itself a signal about the effort behind the sample.
The sample is executed in an isolated environment instrumented to record everything it touches: process creation and injection, file system and registry changes, API calls, credential access and outbound network activity. Evasive samples check whether they are being watched and stay dormant when they think they are, so the environment is built to convince them otherwise.
We establish how the sample survives a reboot, what privileges it acquires, how it moves once it has them, and what infrastructure it reports to, including the protocol, the beacon interval and the fallback channels it falls to when the primary is blocked.
The analysis establishes what the sample could reach from where it landed, which accounts and systems are implicated, and whether anything was staged for exfiltration. That determines the scope of the containment action and what you are obliged to report.
Tooling, infrastructure and tradecraft are compared against known actor activity to establish whether this is commodity crimeware, a targeted intrusion, or an actor already tracked as operating against your sector. The answer changes the response, because a targeted actor returns.
Everything observed is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, so the sample is understood as a set of techniques an actor is using against you rather than as a file, and detection can be written against the technique rather than just the hash.
Output
Detection logic is written against the behaviour rather than the signature, so a recompiled variant carrying a new hash is still caught. Extracted indicators go into automated enforcement immediately. Hunting hypotheses are raised for anything related still sitting in the estate, because a sample that landed once rarely landed alone.
You receive a written account of what the sample is, what it was built to do and what our engineers changed in the detection and enforcement layer as a result, in language a board and a regulator can act on without needing it translated.
Scope
Suspicious files and URLs surfaced by monitoring, samples recovered during incident response, attachments and links reported by your staff, and anything our analysts flag during a hunt. Where a sample resists standard analysis, our engineers write the tooling to open it.
Triage begins immediately on anything active in a monitored environment, with initial findings and a containment recommendation returned inside the same incident rather than after it.
Our team is here to answer your questions and show how a fully managed SOC keeps your organisation protected around the clock, from continuous monitoring to threat hunting and machine-speed response.