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Mastering Malware Analysis

By : Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet
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Mastering Malware Analysis

By: Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet

Overview of this book

With the ever-growing proliferation of technology, the risk of encountering malicious code or malware has also increased. Malware analysis has become one of the most trending topics in businesses in recent years due to multiple prominent ransomware attacks. Mastering Malware Analysis explains the universal patterns behind different malicious software types and how to analyze them using a variety of approaches. You will learn how to examine malware code and determine the damage it can possibly cause to your systems to ensure that it won't propagate any further. Moving forward, you will cover all aspects of malware analysis for the Windows platform in detail. Next, you will get to grips with obfuscation and anti-disassembly, anti-debugging, as well as anti-virtual machine techniques. This book will help you deal with modern cross-platform malware. Throughout the course of this book, you will explore real-world examples of static and dynamic malware analysis, unpacking and decrypting, and rootkit detection. Finally, this book will help you strengthen your defenses and prevent malware breaches for IoT devices and mobile platforms. By the end of this book, you will have learned to effectively analyze, investigate, and build innovative solutions to handle any malware incidents.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Fundamental Theory
3
Section 2: Diving Deep into Windows Malware
5
Unpacking, Decryption, and Deobfuscation
9
Section 3: Examining Cross-Platform Malware
13
Section 4: Looking into IoT and Other Platforms

Rootkit detectors

This group of tools checks for the presence of techniques commonly used by rootkits in the system and provides detailed information. They are very useful for behavioral analysis to confirm that the sample has been loaded properly. Additionally, they can be used to determine the functionality of the sample relatively quickly. Some of the most popular tools are as follows:

  • GMER: This powerful tool supports multiple rootkit patterns and provides relatively detailed technical information. It is able to search for various hidden artifacts, such as processes, services, files, registry keys, and more. Additionally, it features the rootkit removal tool.
  • RootkitRevealer: This is another advanced rootkit detection tool—this time from Sysinternals. Unlike GMER, its output is less technical and it hasn't been updated for a while.

Other discontinued rootkit detection tools include Rootkit Unhooker, DarkSpy, and IceSword.

Apart from these, there are multiple rootkit...