This release brings UI enhancements, especially for the IDA Pro plugin, investment towards py3 support, fixes some bugs identified by the community, and 46 (!) new rules. We received contributions from ten reverse engineers, including five new ones:

• @agithubuserlol
• @recvfrom
• @D4nch3n
• @edeca
• @winniepe

Download a standalone binary below and checkout the readme here on GitHub. Report issues on our issue tracker and contribute new rules at capa-rules.

New features

• ida plugin: display arch flavors @mike-hunhoff
• ida plugin: display block descriptions @mike-hunhoff
• ida backend: extract features from nested pointers @mike-hunhoff
• main: show more progress output @williballenthin
• core: pin dependency versions #258 @recvfrom

New rules

• bypass UAC via AppInfo ALPC @agithubuserlol
• bypass UAC via token manipulation @agithubuserlol
• check for sandbox and av modules @re-fox
• check for sandbox username @re-fox
• check if process is running under wine @re-fox
• validate credit card number using luhn algorithm @re-fox
• validate credit card number using luhn algorithm with no lookup table @re-fox
• hash data using FNV @edeca @mr-tz
• link many functions at runtime @mr-tz
• reference public RSA key @mr-tz
• packed with ASPack @williballenthin
• delete internet cache @mike-hunhoff
• enumerate internet cache @mike-hunhoff
• send ICMP echo request @mike-hunhoff
• check for debugger via API @mike-hunhoff
• check for hardware breakpoints @mike-hunhoff
• check for kernel debugger via shared user data structure @mike-hunhoff
• check for protected handle exception @mike-hunhoff
• check for software breakpoints @mike-hunhoff
• check for trap flag exception @mike-hunhoff
• check for unexpected memory writes @mike-hunhoff
• check process job object @mike-hunhoff
• reference anti-VM strings targeting Parallels @mike-hunhoff
• reference anti-VM strings targeting Qemu @mike-hunhoff
• reference anti-VM strings targeting VirtualBox @mike-hunhoff
• reference anti-VM strings targeting VirtualPC @mike-hunhoff
• reference anti-VM strings targeting VMWare @mike-hunhoff
• reference anti-VM strings targeting Xen @mike-hunhoff
• reference analysis tools strings @mike-hunhoff
• reference WMI statements @mike-hunhoff
• get number of processor cores @mike-hunhoff
• get number of processors @mike-hunhoff
• enumerate disk properties @mike-hunhoff
• get disk size @mike-hunhoff
• get process heap flags @mike-hunhoff
• get process heap force flags @mike-hunhoff
• get Explorer PID @mike-hunhoff
• delay execution @mike-hunhoff
• check for process debug object @mike-hunhoff
• check license value @mike-hunhoff
• check ProcessDebugFlags @mike-hunhoff
• check ProcessDebugPort @mike-hunhoff
• check SystemKernelDebuggerInformation @mike-hunhoff
• check thread yield allowed @mike-hunhoff
• enumerate system firmware tables @mike-hunhoff
• get system firmware table @mike-hunhoff
• hide thread from debugger @mike-hunhoff

Bug fixes

• ida backend: extract unmapped immediate number features @mike-hunhoff
• ida backend: fix stack cookie check #257 @mike-hunhoff
• viv backend: better extract gs segment access @williballenthin
• core: enable counting of string features #241 @D4nch3n @williballenthin
• core: enable descriptions on feature with arch flavors @mike-hunhoff
• core: update git links for non-SSH access #259 @recvfrom

Changes

• ida plugin: better default display showing first level nesting @winniepe
• remove unused characteristic(switch) feature @ana06
• prepare testing infrastructure for multiple backends/py3 @williballenthin
• ci: zip build artifacts @ana06
• ci: build all supported python versions @ana06
• code style and formatting @mr-tz

Raw diffs

• capa v1.1.0...v1.2.0
• capa-rules v1.1.0...v1.2.0