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Latest — Feb 5, 2025

UnpacMe 8.7.0 – Malicious Python, AI Safety, and Binary Signature Hunting

Need to triage malicious Python – read the script! Or better yet, let AI analyze it for you. Our first release of 2025 introduces full PyInstaller unpacking, Python decompilation, and new hunting features.

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ATIP – Introducing AI-Powered Threat Reporting and Analysis

With UnpacMe 8.6.0, we introduce ATIP, our AI-powered Automated Threat Intelligence Product. ATIP uses artificial intelligence to summarize malware analysis, generate threat reports, and provide insights into malware behavior, capabilities, and overall threat potential.

UnpacMe 8.5.0 – Lightning Fast MalwareID Mode

With the release of version 8.5.0, we introduce a new analysis mode for rapid triage of malware that doesn’t require unpacking. Using MalwareID, we provide malware identification and extracted configurations within seconds.

UnpacMe Weekly: Stealing Summer

This week, we observed an increase in Stealc and Vidar Stealer submissions, with a continued rise in .NET-based information stealers. UnpacMe’s enhanced analysis now more effectively handles corrupted PE files.

UnpacMe PIVOT!

Introducing PIVOT our new graph-based search interface! With PIVOT it is easy to investigate links between malware files, artifacts, and network data, revealing a holistic threat picture.

UnpacMe Support For YARA-X

We are excited to announce that UnpacMe has integrated support for YARA-X, a new project recently released by Google’s VirusTotal team. YARA-X is a complete rewrite of YARA developed in Rust. According to the announcement, future features and modules will be exclusively developed for YARA-X, rather than the existing

Zombieware: Malware That Never Dies...

Self-replicating malware, long abandoned by its operators, continues to contribute significant volume and noise to malware feeds. We investigate this trend, which we refer to as Zombieware.

UnpacMe 8.0.0 – YARA Rule Management, Shared Rules, AV Detects, .NET Analysis, Icons, and Much More

Our first big release of 2024 adds a completely redesigned YARA editor with rule versioning, rule management, AV detections, .NET metadata analysis and much more.

Malware Trends: Yearly 2023

Looking back on the past year's public UnpacMe submissions, we have compiled some interesting statistics that provide an overview of the state of malware in 2023. Instead of just counting malware families, we wanted to drill deeper into our data and extract predictive trends that can help us

UnpacMe 2023 Year In Review: Malware Intel For Everyone

At the beginning of 2023 UnpacMe was strictly a malware unpacking platform with the capability to identify common malware families, and extract malware configuration information. By December 2023, we had transformed into an malware intelligence and hunting platform with a freemium model that allows us to provide the same powerful