If you recall from Chapter 8, Code Injection and Hooking, code injection is a technique used for injecting malicious code (such as EXE, DLL, or shellcode) into legitimate process memory and executing the malicious code within the context of a legitimate process. To inject code into the remote process, a malware program normally allocates a memory with a protection of Read, Write, and Execute permission (PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE), and then injects the code into the allocated memory of the remote process. To detect the code that is injected into the remote process, you can look for the suspicious memory ranges based on the memory protection and content of the memory. The compelling question is, what is the suspicious memory range and how do you get information about the process memory range? If you recall from the previous chapter (in the Detecting Hidden DLL using ldrmodules section), Windows maintains a binary tree structure named Virtual Address Descriptors (VADs...
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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.
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Learning Malware Analysis
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Malware Analysis
Static Analysis
Dynamic Analysis
Assembly Language and Disassembly Primer
Disassembly Using IDA
Debugging Malicious Binaries
Malware Functionalities and Persistence
Code Injection and Hooking
Malware Obfuscation Techniques
Hunting Malware Using Memory Forensics
Detecting Advanced Malware Using Memory Forensics
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Index
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