Updates for BASS

This blog post was authored by Jonas Zaddach and Mariano Graziano.

Cisco Talos has rolled out a series of improvements to the BASS open-source framework aimed at speeding up its ability to provide coverage for new malware families. Talos released BASS, (pronounced “bæs”) an open-source framework designed to automatically generate antivirus signatures from samples belonging to previously generated malware clusters, last June. It is meant to reduce the amount of resources required to run ClamAV by producing more pattern-based signatures, as opposed to hash-based signatures, and to alleviate the workload of analysts who write pattern-based signatures. The framework is easily scalable, thanks to Docker, an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud.