Zheng™ File Analysis

I am proud to announce the official release of our File Analysis service, using our heuristic engine, nicknamed Zheng™.

I have been working with several people that have contributed to this project and I must say I have been very impressed by their expertise.

As Manager of our SWAT Team I have always been interested in innovative and creative ideas. That is one of our strengths as a young company, to always be pushing the boundaries and achieve the best level of service.

I, myself, am young to this industry. It has been roughly 4 years now but I have seen many trends in the security field. It all started with the spyware and adware craze… and along the way Botnets have taken over the stage with the Storm Worm for example.

Another drastic change is in the number of malware samples we see each day. This number has skyrocketed and shown the limitations of current Anti-Virus products.

Signature-based scanning is proven and solid, but it simply cannot keep up with the volume of samples. New methods have to be employed to detect malware.

If you look closely, those millions of threats do have things in common. Actually most of them are variants of each other. Capitalizing on that, it is possible to detect automatically generated malware that normally evades MD5 checks, for example.

Our team is working on several different techniques and algorithms. From the scientist’s point of view, to the software developper’s implementation.

There are many challenges along the way. Those make the research projects all the more fascinating and mind-boggling. We know we have to think fast though, otherwise we would be trailing behind.

So, today, we are presenting a great milestone in our research and we encourage you to give it a try and tell us what you think.

Thanks!

Jerome