capa v7.2.0 introduces a first version of capa explorer web: a web-based user interface to inspect capa results using your browser. Users can inspect capa result JSON documents in an online web instance or a standalone HTML page for offline usage. capa explorer supports interactive exploring of capa results to make it easier to understand them. Users can filter, sort, and see the details of all identified capabilities. capa explorer web was worked on by @s-ff as part of a GSoC project, and it is available at https://mandiant.github.io/capa/explorer/#/.

This release also adds a feature extractor for output from the DRAKVUF sandbox. Now, analysts can pass the resulting drakmon.log file to capa and extract capabilities from the artifacts captured by the sandbox. This feature extractor will also be added to the DRAKVUF sandbox as a post-processing script, and it was worked on by @yelhamer as part of a GSoC project.

Additionally, we fixed several bugs handling ELF files, and added the ability to filter capa analysis by functions or processes. We also added support to the IDA Pro extractor to leverage analyst recovered API names.

Special thanks to our repeat and new contributors:

• @lakshayletsgo for their first contribution in https://github.com/mandiant/capa/pull/2248
• @msm-cert for their first contribution in https://github.com/mandiant/capa/pull/2143
• @VascoSch92 for their first contribution in https://github.com/mandiant/capa/pull/2143

New Features

• webui: explore capa analysis results in a web-based UI online and offline #2224 @s-ff
• support analyzing DRAKVUF traces #2143 @yelhamer
• IDA extractor: extract names from dynamically resolved APIs stored in renamed global variables #2201 @Ana06
• cli: add the ability to select which specific functions or processes to analyze @yelhamer

Breaking Changes

New Rules (5)

• nursery/upload-file-to-onedrive jaredswilson@google.com ervinocampo@google.com
• data-manipulation/encoding/base64/decode-data-using-base64-via-vbmi-lookup-table still@teamt5.org
• communication/socket/attach-bpf-to-socket-on-linux jakub.jozwiak@mandiant.com
• anti-analysis/anti-av/overwrite-dll-text-section-to-remove-hooks jakub.jozwiak@mandiant.com
• nursery/delete-file-on-linux mehunhoff@google.com

Bug Fixes

• elf: extract import / export symbols from stripped binaries #2096 @ygasparis
• elf: fix handling of symbols in corrupt ELF files #2226 @williballenthin

capa explorer IDA Pro plugin

Development

• CI: use macos-12 since macos-11 is deprecated and will be removed on June 28th, 2024 #2173 @mr-tz
• CI: update Binary Ninja version to 4.1 and use Python 3.9 to test it #2211 @xusheng6
• CI: update tests.yml workflow to exclude web and documentation files #2263 @s-ff
• CI: update build.yml workflow to exclude web and documentation files #2270 @s-ff

Raw diffs

• capa v7.1.0...7.2.0
• capa-rules v7.1.0...7.2.0