JSAC2024 -Day 2-

This second blog post features the Main Track talks on the Day 2 of JSAC.

XFiles: Large-Scale Analysis of Malicious MSIX/APPX

Speakers: Kazuya Nomura, Teruki Yoshikawa, Masaya Motoda (NTT Security Japan)

Slides (Japanese)

The speakers discussed Microsoft’s new packaged files, MSIX and APPX, which have been exploited in recent years in attack campaigns. They explained the points to focus on when analyzing the structure, operation mechanisms, and characteristics of the malicious files.

MSIX and APPX are distributable Windows package file …

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