From Assistant to Analyst: The Power of Gemini 1.5 Pro for Malware Analysis

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Executive Summary A growing amount of malware has naturally increased workloads for defenders and particularly malware analysts, creating a need for improved automation and approaches to dealing with this classic threat. With the recent rise in generative AI tools, we decided to put our own Gemini 1.5 Pro to the test to see how it performed at analyzing malware. By providing code and using a simple prompt, we asked Gemini 1.5 Pro to determine if the file was malicious, and also to provide a list of activities and indicators of compromise. We did this for multiple malware files, testing with [...]