Category Archives: Binary Analysis

Andrubis: A Tool for Analyzing Unknown Android Applications

We are proud to announce that we have released our brand new extension for Anubis: Andrubis. As the name already suggests, Andrubis is designed to analyze unknown apps for the Android platform (APKs), just like Anubis does for Windows executables. … Continue reading

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Shellzer: a tool for the dynamic analysis of malicious shellcode

Last September, I presented Shellzer at RAID 2011 conference. Shellzer is a tool that I developed back in August 2010, that aims to dynamically analyze malicious shellcode. The main goal was to analyze the shellcode samples that have been collected by running … Continue reading

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Anubis – Managing a growing, distributed infrastructure for Binary Analysis [Part II]

In part I of this blog post, I summarized how and why the Anubis system has grown into a not only virtually, but also physically distributed analysis service. In part II, I will explain how we tackled the problem of … Continue reading

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Apple Sued Over Applications Giving Information to Advertisers

According to this Bloomberg article, a law suit was filed against Apple for allowing applications to give personally identifiable information to advertisement networks without the users’ consent. First off, IANL. However, I feel that my recent work regarding iPhone and … Continue reading

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Detecting Privacy Leaks in iPhone Applications

In the upcoming NDSS 2011 conference in San Diego, one of the papers our team will be presenting is Manuel‘s work on detecting privacy leaks in iPhone applications. The sales of smartphones have exploded recently — especially because of mobile phone … Continue reading

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Anubis – Managing a growing, distributed infrastructure for Binary Analysis [Part I]

As promised in the last blog-post, I will cover some of the internals of our analysis infrastructure for analyzing unknown binaries (Anubis) in a series of posts. With this article, I would like to make a start in that direction, … Continue reading

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News from the Anubis admins

More than three and a half years ago, the Anubis – Analyzing Unknown Binaries – service went online with the following, very first news entry: Friday, February 16th, 2007: We are online! First version of the homepage is online. The … Continue reading

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