Hybrid Analysis Kicks Off 2024 With a Fresh Look and New Features
New Hybrid Analysis logo and fresh look as we kick-start 2024
Image scanning support and feedback contact form are now available
To celebrate the start of a new year, Hybrid Analysis — your favorite free public malware analysis platform — is kicking off 2024 with a fresh, modern new look and some additional new features and improvements intended to provide the best possible outcomes for our community.
For the past year we’ve been hard at work making under-the-hood performance optimizations. We’ve also added new features, such as support for file detonations in Windows 11 64-bit and x86 macOS, as well as a new “Analysis Related URLs'' category in the CrowdStrike AI section of the sample detonation report, which presents data on URLs and domains extracted from analyzed samples. We have also integrated new technologies from our partners including Bfore.Ai, ScamAdviser and CleanDNS.
New Logo, Refreshed Looks
Vintage is in, but there is such a thing as hanging on to a look for too long — and the Hybrid Analysis logo was beginning to look dated. We wanted a modern look that reflects the exciting new capabilities added to the service over the past year. In addition to the new logo, the Hybrid Analysis website has been refreshed with new fonts for added visual appeal.
These changes will become immediately apparent as you visit the homepage or navigate to any overview or report page. We’re constantly working to improve the Hybrid Analysis user experience, so through the upcoming year we plan to gently roll out new visual modifications and updates to enhance your experience with the platform.
Figure 1. Hybrid Analysis Latest Submissions page with new font and logo
Image Scanning Support for QuickScan
Rest assured, the new changes are not just skin-deep. We just introduced new image-scanning support for QuickScan static analysis. It's as easy as uploading a 'png', 'jpg', 'gif', 'tiff', or 'bmp' file type and hitting the Analyze button. If you’re ever in doubt whether an image file type could be carrying some concealed executable code or malware, you can instantly get an assessment from QuickScan, which performs static analysis using CrowdStrike machine learning (ML) and technologies from our partners, such as Metadefender.
Figure 2. Hybrid Analysis QuickScan Analysis Overview for a ‘gif’ file
We Value Your Input
Hybrid Analysis vetted users now have the ability to conveniently ask questions, make suggestions or offer feedback about the platform. We have introduced a “Contact Us” form — found at the bottom of the webpage in the footer — so it’s easier than ever to reach out to us. Just pick one of the predefined topics from the Subject drop down list, blast us a message and we will do our best to reply to the email address associated with your Hybrid Analysis account.
Alternatively, for those that are not vetted users and want to reach out with comments, suggestions or feedback, please feel free to drop us a line on our Hybrid Analysis X (formerly Twitter) account. Your feedback is important to us and we value your input!
Figure 3 - Hybrid Analysis Contact Us form (available for vetted users)
The Road Ahead
We have been committed to continually improving the capabilities and the quality of the Hybrid Analysis platform by constantly adding new features, improving existing ones or in some cases, removing them.
Thank you to our users. You can look forward to continued investment in Hybrid Analysis upgrades through 2024. Expect ongoing improvements to the UI and, most importantly of all, continued enhancements to our services along with more technology partnerships to augment our capabilities for providing the best possible insights for you — the Hybrid Analysis community.
