Script Tracer Tool – Threat Researchers to Trace & Deobfuscate the Malware Execution

Cyber forensic tools play a crucial role in cyber investigations by helping investigators collect, analyze, and preserve digital evidence. 

These tools can extract data from various sources, such as:-

• Hard drives
• Mobile devices
• Network traffic

They also allow for identifying malware, tracking online activities, and decrypting encrypted data.

Recently, Any Run launched its new “Script Tracer,” a tool primarily made for threat researchers to trace and deobfuscate malware execution.

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Script Tracer

Script Tracer in ANY.RUN’s cloud sandbox simplifies script deobfuscation and works seamlessly across all the major Windows versions, like Windows 7-11, enhancing users’ experiences.

Scripting languages empower Windows tasks but also fuel rising malware in such code. There are various types of scripting code in Windows, and here they are mentioned below:-

• JScript
• VBScript
• VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)
• Macro 4.0

All the above-mentioned scripts can be analyzed seamlessly with the help of Script Tracer. Before this update, ANY.RUN users saw execution outcomes but not attackers’ script actions like:

• API calls
• OS checks
• WMI requests

Script Tracer provides detailed insights into deobfuscated script activities, similar to code debugging. Besides this, access the Script Tracer reports from a tracer icon in the process tree or the Advanced Process Details report.

Here below, we have mentioned the two new additions:

New Indicator in the Process Tree

A New Tab in Advanced Process Details

Apart from this, this tracer also enables users to view compiled VBE scripts like:-

• The script execution process
• Namely requested functions
• Transferred data

Script Tracer reveals hidden insights, like request results. Scripts run via executables, as with WMIC loading and executing vbscript for malware data collection.

Encountering VBS-based malware? Examine WSHRat as an example. Easily investigate Office macros and scripts. You can also delve into the visible Windows API in a sneaky document using “alloc” and “request.”

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