So close to the end and a final wall presents itself in my analysis. It appears that the author of Ficker stealer was smart and made sure that the malware would only execute and perform its attack when connected to a real network. Since I have my VMs connected to an internal network that give…

Everything is finally running. Switching to a modern OS really helped out. Setting everything up was way easier since I knew what I was doing and what I was looking for. My sample of Ficker stealer was also able to run in the new VM without issues, I reverted to a previous snapshot afterwards. Having…

So, this week was a bit slower than the others before. Having to setup a new VM went faster than the first time, but this week was the midpoint of the capstone project. That meant that this weak instead of starting with testing the new VM and making sure it is truly isolated and working…

So, this week finally saw me selecting the malware sample I’m going to be analyzing for the final paper. I chose one called ficker stealer, from the name alone it can be guessed at what it does. If the name isn’t enough, it steals your information a whole lot of it. It’s due to malware…

This week finally saw me analyzing pieces of malware. Nothing too fancy, only using static techniques since I only had VMs setup and connected to each other but not fully isolated from the internet or from the host (my actual computer). So, it was still at little dangerous, but not too much as long as…

So, there isn’t much to report on this week since the vast majority of what I did this week was mainly reading, reading, and some online reading with some downloads. There is a lot to read on and tools to download to prepare oneself for malware analysis even just the static type of analysis. I…

So, this week I got to meet my team members and the project I will be working on. My team members are awesome, they are both very communicative and always respond to questions or posts in the group chat we set up in Teams. The project as well, though not my first selection, is a…

This is really it, the final class that will end my OSU journey. It really is hard to believe that two years passed by so fast. I started the program with a rudimentary knowledge of CS and after learning so much I definitely know and understand more but there is still so much out there.While…