Abdulquadri Saka-Bolanta is a Cyber Security professional with proven expertise across security operations, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, cloud security, and incident response. He is deeply engaged in researching emerging threats and developing innovative solutions. He tweets @SakaBolanta and share insights from his research and fail-forward approach to cybersecurity through his blog at secopsbro.com.
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Nov 19, 2024 · 5 min read · This Excel document contains malicious macros that are obfuscated to avoid detection. When opened and macros are enabled, it attempts to reach out to external resources hosted on malicious URLs and download and execute additional payloads. Source: ht...
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Nov 12, 2024 · 14 min read · The Vjw0rm script is JavaScript malware with layered obfuscation. It is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) designed to perform various malicious operations on a Windows system through the Windows Script Host (WSH) environment. When run, it decodes obfuscat...
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Nov 6, 2024 · 8 min read · In this exercise, I analysed a Remote Access Trojan binary, njRAT.exe, sourced from the Zoo malware repository on GitHub. Analysis revealed that the sample was originally compiled in 2013 as EnKSaR.HaCKeR.exe. The malware is designed to grant an atta...
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Dec 22, 2022 · 6 min read · The goal of this exercise is to write a code that generates a Random Password with Python. The function is named randomPassword, and it generates a random password that takes no parameters. The password criteria are as follows: The password will hav...
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Feb 18, 2022 · 7 min read · In this exercise, I investigated failed authentication attempts with Splunk to detect potential threat actors attempting to gain access to the environment. This exercise is divided into three parts: Detection, Validation, and Scoping. I found this re...
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