RIFT: New open-source tool from Microsoft helps analyze Rust malware

Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center has released a new tool called RIFT to help malware analysts identify malicious code hidden in Rust binaries. While Rust is becoming more popular for its speed and memory safety, those same qualities make malware written in Rust harder to analyze. RIFT is designed to cut through that complexity and make the job easier. Overview of RIFT Static Analyzer (Source: Microsoft) Why Rust malware is hard to analyze To show the …