Email remains one of the most common entry points for malware, and detection is only the first step in assessing risk. When a suspicious or malicious email contains an attachment, security teams often need deeper insight into the file itself to understand execution risk, validate malicious behavior, or determine whether escalation is required. Too often, this process involves manual steps, disconnected tools, and unnecessary delays.

To help security teams investigate email-borne threats faster and with greater confidence, Abnormal AI and CrowdStrike are expanding their long-standing strategic partnership with a new integration for CrowdStrike’s Malware Analysis Agent, building on existing integrations between two market-leading security providers. This defense-in-depth approach extends Abnormal’s high-fidelity email detections—rooted in behavioral and content-layer analysis—into CrowdStrike’s malware analysis workflows, giving teams seamless access to advanced file analysis without disrupting operations.

Understanding the true risk of suspicious attachments requires more than basic detection. Traditional email security tools often rely on static rules or known indicators, which can miss novel, targeted, or evasive malware.

Abnormal’s AI-driven approach models normal communication and attachment behavior across every identity, allowing it to surface high-confidence threats even when malware is new or designed to evade detection.

By integrating these behavioral insights directly into the broader security operations stack—including endpoint protection, malware analysis, and SIEM platforms—security teams gain the context needed to assess potential impact, validate behavior, and determine whether escalation is warranted.

The Abnormal and CrowdStrike Malware Analysis Agent integration makes high-confidence email detections actionable through on-demand investigation within the CrowdStrike platform.

CrowdStrike’s Malware Analysis Agent quickly analyzes suspicious files at scale, delivering threat verdicts in seconds using a combination of static and dynamic analysis backed by CrowdStrike threat intelligence. When Abnormal flags a suspicious email attachment, analysts can investigate further within their existing CrowdStrike workflows.

The investigation process follows these steps:

1. A malicious email is detected and automatically remediated by Abnormal using behavioral and contextual AI signals.

2. Threat context and attachment metadata surface within CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary Intelligence Premium alongside other security telemetry.

3. Malware analysis is initiated on demand to perform rapid, scalable analysis of the attachment.

4. Analysis results are available directly in the CrowdStrike platform, keeping investigations centralized and efficient.

5. Additional assessment of threat severity and spread, along with remediation actions, can be performed directly within CrowdStrike as needed.

This workflow preserves the speed of Abnormal’s built-in malware analysis and automated remediation while giving SOC teams an additional validation layer. Teams can apply a defense-in-depth approach by combining Abnormal’s AI-driven behavioral detections with CrowdStrike’s best-in-class attachment scanning, strengthening confidence in investigations without added complexity or tool sprawl.

For organizations using both Abnormal and CrowdStrike, the Malware Analysis Agent integration delivers tangible benefits across day-to-day operations and high-impact scenarios:

• SOC Efficiency: Eliminate manual file exports and reduce context switching between tools.

• Faster Investigations: Validate suspicious attachments more quickly to inform response decisions.

• Defense-in-Depth Protection: Add an extra validation layer for suspicious attachments by combining Abnormal’s AI-driven behavioral detections with CrowdStrike’s best-in-class malware scanning.

• Security Program Maturity: Reinforce a more integrated, layered email and malware defense strategy.

Abnormal and CrowdStrike share a common mission: helping security teams stop modern attacks that evade traditional, siloed defenses. Since 2023, we’ve built a deep strategic partnership spanning multiple integrations across email, identity, endpoint, and SIEM workflows, giving customers better visibility, faster investigations, and more confident responses across the security stack.

Today, joint customers benefit from bi-directional integrations that correlate identity and email signals, as well as streamlined ingestion of Abnormal detections into CrowdStrike Falcon® Adversary Intelligence Premium, providing a unified view of email-based threats alongside broader security telemetry.

​​With the addition of the Malware Analysis Agent integration, this partnership expands into rapid, on-demand file and malware analysis, strengthening customer visibility into potentially malicious artifacts shared across platforms while keeping investigations centralized within the CrowdStrike ecosystem.

As threats continue to evolve, Abnormal and CrowdStrike remain committed to building integrations that reflect how modern security teams actually work, connecting detection, investigation, and response across the security stack.

Interested in seeing how Abnormal and CrowdStrike deliver defense-in-depth protection for email-borne threats?