Malicious Software continues to be an ever-evolving scourge on enterprise and consumer systems. As soon as defenses are created, malware coders create a new strain that has the power to corrupt or destroy a system. Malware is even being utilized as a weapon against nation states and global organizations. A great many of the data breaches that have made the news have some component, either in whole or in part, that involves the use of malware to achieve some goal. Organizations in every sector of the economy have faced malware. With the addition of ransomware attacks such as WannaCry and Petya, organizations have had to spring into action to address these attacks.

With malware an ever-present risk, it is critical that incident response analysts have some knowledge of the methods and tools utilized in the analysis of malicious code. It would be impossible to address the complexities of malware analysis in a single chapter. Therefore, this chapter will focus on the...