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Count Upon Security isaboutmatters that are related toIT security. My name is Luis Rocha and I'm a Portuguese living in Switzerland. I’m a computer enthusiast with particular interest in security. As result, I decided to create and bring to lifethis niche blog.

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Blog 5 years ago
FireEye Endpoint Security (HX) - Supplementary Tools
Today I am going to write a few notes about tools that should be part of your toolkit in case you use FireEye Endpoint Security product a.k.a. as HX. If you don't use FireEye HX, this post likely has no interest for you. I tend to use HX when performing l
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Blog 7 years ago
Notes on Linux Memory Analysis - LiME, Volatility and LKM's
The post below contains some notes I wrote about Linux memory forensics using LiME and Volatility to analyze a Red Hat 6.10 memory capture infected with Diaphormine and Reptile, two known Linux Kernel Module rootkits. Back in 2011, Joe Sylve, Lodovico, Ma
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Blog 8 years ago
Six Years ago …
On 4th of November 2012, Count Upon Security was born. This weekend was it's 6th anniversary! I started this project has hobby in my spare time. I wanted to share with the IT Security community material and illustrations which I thought could be useful. T
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Blog 8 years ago
Digital Forensics - PlugX and Artifacts left behind
When an attacker conducts an intrusion using A, B or C technique, some of his actions leave artifact X, Y or Z behind. So, based on the scenario from the last article about PlugX, I collected a disk image and memory image from the domain controller. Over
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Blog 8 years ago
Malware Analysis - PlugX - Part 2
Following my previous article on PlugX, I would like to continue the analysis but now use the PlugX controller to mimic some of the steps that might be executed by an attacker. As you know the traditional steps of an attack lifecycle follow, normally, a p
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Blog 8 years ago
Intro to American Fuzzy Lop - Fuzzing with ASAN and beyond
In the previous article I showed how easily you could run American Fuzy Lop (AFL) to fuzz an open source target. I used a 64-bit system and used AFL to fuzz the 64-bits version of tcpdump. Today, I'm going to fuzz the 32-bit version of tcpdump. Why the 32
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Blog 8 years ago
Intro to American Fuzzy Lop - Fuzzing in 5 steps
After attending the workshop on "Vulnerability Discovery and Triage Automation" given by the well-known security researcher Richard Johnson, I rolled up my sleeves and started practicing. Essentially, looking at the different tools and techniques that wer
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News Count Upon Security 10 years ago
Blockchain & Brainwallet cracking
The blockchain is the underlying technology that enables the bitcoin cryptocurrency to exist. A foundational component of this technology is its complex cryptosystem. The blockchain cryptosystem re…
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News Count Upon Security 10 years ago
RIG Exploit Kit Analysis - Part 3
Over the course of the last two articles (part 1 & part 2), I analyzed a recent drive-by-download campaign that was delivering the RIG Exploit Kit . In this article, I will complete the analysi…
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News Count Upon Security 10 years ago
RIG Exploit Kit Analysis - Part 2
Continuing with the analysis of the RIG exploit kit, let's start where we left off and understand the part that contains the malicious Adobe Flash file.We saw, in the last post, that the RIG…
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