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Windows Malware Analysis Essentials

By : Victor Marak
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Windows Malware Analysis Essentials

By: Victor Marak

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Fortifying your debrief


Before we start with the analysis, let's explore our reporting tool Scrivener from Literature and Latte. This is quite a deep tool and you are recommended to visit their website at http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php.

This amazing software is more popular with literary types (aka novelists and writers, many well-known names too) and academics, and not so much widespread within the computer security community. Some of the well-distributed tools for security research include MS Word, Notepad++, Ultra Edit, FreeMind, and Dradis among a slew of other text editors and such. However, it is strongly recommended that you use Scrivener for reasons that will become apparent the moment you start using it. Some of the useful features are a hierarchical note repository called Drafts managed in a Binder toward the extreme left which is a metaphor for a book binder with notes. You also have Research folder inside the Binder. The Drafts and Research components cannot be...