Trojan Analysis using Malware Detection

Laying out possible defense strategies is helpful but it does little to help the defender in practical terms: weaim to bridge this gap with our initiative. Leveraging state- of-the-art tools such as Flare VM and REMnux, we give a detailed framework for ZeuS anatomy, behavior and spreading mechanism. This helps the cybersecurity community make an actionable defense plan against Zeus and its forms by finding important discoverable information, Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), along with retrospective IOCs. We then tailor our effort towards stopping and detracting from the emerging threat that banking Trojans such as Zeus have become, due to a shortage in effective analysis today by both researchers fighting them aroundevery corner of the internet more so than Security Practitioners defending against their endeavors. Our goal is to secure our defences through rigorous analysis and actionable knowledge against the dynamic threat landscape of contemporary malware. Execution of Zeus within a controlled environment, monitoring its behavior, and capturing run-time activities. Furthermore, we extend our analysis to incorporate threat intelligence from platforms like Virus Total and Hybrid Analysis, enriching our understanding of Zeus’s characteristics, variants, and detection rates. In conclusion, this report provides a detailed abstract of our static and dynamic analysis of the Zeus trojan using Flare VM and REMNUX, offering a comprehensive overview of our methodologies, findings, and insights.