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AI-Assisted Deep Malware Analysis for Scalable Response

As Dream's security operations encountered increasingly sophisticated malware linked to multistage attack campaigns, deep technical analysis became critical for response and eradication. Although detection flagged suspicious activity, producing remediation guidance often required multiday reverse-engineering efforts by specialists across multiple programming languages. This caused delays and limited how many complex incidents could be handled simultaneously. Scaling high-quality malware response without expanding specialist headcount became a priority. Solution: An internal AI-assisted malware analysis capability was developed and integrated into detection and response workflows. Designed and refined by Dream's cybersecurity AI researchers embedded in operational investigations, the system analyses malicious code to examine how it runs, remains active on a system, escalates access, moves across systems and communicates with attackers. It extracts TTPs and generates structured, explainable outputs supporting containment, environment-wide hunting for related variants and remediation and eradication guidance. Outputs are transparent, evidence-backed and reviewed by human analysts before action is taken.

Impact / Outcome
Since deployment, remediation guidance time has been reduced by up to 95%, compressing multiday reverse-engineering efforts into minutes. This reduces manual workload, enabling faster response and greater parallel investigation capacity without increasing specialist headcount. By standardizing advanced malware response workflows and reducing reliance on language-specific experts, Dream strengthened its ability to detect, mitigate, hunt and eradicate malware variants at scale.
Key Metrics
Up to 95% reduction in remediation guidance time (multiday efforts compressed into minutes)
Locations
Middle East & North Africa, Israel
Sector
IT and Communications (ICT)
Year published
04 May 2026
Organization involved
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Dream