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Learning Malware Analysis

By : Monnappa K A
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Book Image

Learning Malware Analysis

5 (1)
By: Monnappa K A

Overview of this book

Malware analysis and memory forensics are powerful analysis and investigation techniques used in reverse engineering, digital forensics, and incident response. With adversaries becoming sophisticated and carrying out advanced malware attacks on critical infrastructures, data centers, and private and public organizations, detecting, responding to, and investigating such intrusions is critical to information security professionals. Malware analysis and memory forensics have become must-have skills to fight advanced malware, targeted attacks, and security breaches. This book teaches you the concepts, techniques, and tools to understand the behavior and characteristics of malware through malware analysis. It also teaches you techniques to investigate and hunt malware using memory forensics. This book introduces you to the basics of malware analysis, and then gradually progresses into the more advanced concepts of code analysis and memory forensics. It uses real-world malware samples, infected memory images, and visual diagrams to help you gain a better understanding of the subject and to equip you with the skills required to analyze, investigate, and respond to malware-related incidents.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. Detecting Advanced Malware Using Memory Forensics

In the previous chapter, we looked at different Volatility plugins, which help in extracting valuable information from the memory image. In this chapter, we will continue our journey of memory forensics and we will look at a few more plugins that will help you extract forensic artifacts from the memory image infected with advanced malware, which uses stealth and concealment techniques. In the next section, we will focus on detecting code injection techniques using memory forensics. The next section discusses some of the concepts already covered in Chapter 8, Code Injection and Hooking, so it is highly recommended to read that chapter before reading the next section.