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Learning Malware Analysis

By : Monnappa K A
5 (1)
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

7. Displaying Device Trees


You can use the devicetree plugin in Volatility to display the device tree in the same format as the DeviceTree tool. The following highlighted entries show the device stack of HarddiskVolume1 that is associated with volmgr.sys:

$ python vol.py -f win7_x86.vmem --profile=Win7SP1x86 devicetree

DRV 0x05329db8 \Driver\WMIxWDM
---| DEV 0x85729a38 WMIAdminDevice FILE_DEVICE_UNKNOWN
---| DEV 0x85729b60 WMIDataDevice FILE_DEVICE_UNKNOWN
[REMOVED]

DRV 0xbf2e0bd8 \Driver\volmgr
---| DEV 0x868e7e20 HarddiskVolume1 FILE_DEVICE_DISK
------| ATT 0x868e7b28 - \Driver\fvevol FILE_DEVICE_DISK
---------| ATT 0x868e78c0 - \Driver\rdyboost FILE_DEVICE_DISK
------------| ATT 0x85707658 - \Driver\volsnap FILE_DEVICE_DISK
[REMOVED]

To help you understand the use of the devicetree plugin in forensic investigation, let's take a look at a malware which creates its own device to store its malicious binary. In the following example of the ZeroAccessrootkit, I have used the cmdline plugin...