Analyze Malicious Files in a Sandboxing Environment with Cyware’s Intel Exchange (CTIX)

Sandboxing provides a safe environment where security teams can detonate malicious programs, files, or URLs to analyze and observe their behavior. With the release of Intel Exchange (CTIX) version 3.3.2, Cyware has enabled security teams to perform a detailed analysis of malware and gather advanced threat intelligence by integrating with Joe Sandbox.

How Intel Exchange Sandboxing Works?

The integration of Intel Exchange and Joe Security Sandbox enables security analysts to analyze malicious files and URLs on Windows, macOS, Android, and Linux environments. By enabling in-depth analysis, it significantly enhances the threat detection rate and minimizes threat evasion. Let’s find out how it works!

• By integrating with a sandbox tool, Intel Exchange enables the analysis of potentially malicious files or URLs in an isolated environment hosted by the sandbox provider. This allows safe threat analysis without putting host devices or networks to risk.

• If a potential threat is detected, security teams can analyze the threat in Intel Exchange and automatically take actions on the analyzed data in third-party detection and response tools, such as SIEM, EDR, UEBA, etc.

Intel Exchange Sandboxing Use Cases

The Intel Exchange Sandboxing use cases include

Malware Analysis

The Intel Exchange Sandbox integration allows security teams to upload a malicious file or URL, which is executed in the chosen environment for malware analysis. This helps them to automatically harvest malicious IOCs detected during detonation and take action on them for further blocking/detection. After the analysis is performed by the sandbox tool, security teams can view the detailed malware analysis report.

Verdict Mapping

The integration facilitates verdict mapping, enabling the results of files or URLs analyzed in Joe Security Sandbox to be mapped to Intel Exchange. This feature empowers security teams to determine if files and URLs are malicious, non-malicious, or suspicious effectively.

Feed Analyzed Threat Intel to SIEM

Once a file or URL is successfully analyzed, security teams can create intel in Intel Exchange using the data identified in the sandbox malware analysis report. The intel can further be enriched, scored, and directly fed into SIEMs.

Automated Threat Actioning

Security teams can determine potentially malicious IOCs and better respond to the threats. After the analysis, Intel Exchange automatically feeds these IOCs into their SIEM tool for threat hunting and automated actioning.

Intel Exchange Sandboxing Benefits

Let’s learn how security teams are benefited from this new integration.

• Threat analysis: Any file or URL can be tested and analyzed in a sandbox environment for potential threats before they are opened or accessed.
• Zero-day threat analysis: By running a malicious file or URL in a sandbox environment, zero-day threats can be analyzed.
• Malware detection: All the malicious files or URLs are analyzed in an isolated environment, which makes it a safer and more effective way of malware detection. This also prevents operating systems and host devices of organizations from being exposed to potential threats.
• Threat intel enrichment: After sandbox analysis, the collected threat data is fed to Intel Exchange and further enriched using Intel Exchange’s confidence scoring mechanism.

Wrapping Up

Intel Exchange Sandboxing is designed to prevent threats from intruding on your networks, helping you boost your incident response process. you'll be at the forefront of real-time threat analysis, expertly triaging incidents, uncovering elusive IOCs, and unlocking valuable insights for proactive threat hunting.

To learn more about this integration, book a free demo today.