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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

3. Dynamic Analysis (Monitoring) Tools


Before performing dynamic analysis, it is essential to understand the tools that you will use to monitor the malware's behavior. In this chapter and throughout this book, various malware analysis tools will be covered. If you have setup your lab environment as described in Chapter 1, you can download these tools to your host machine and then transfer/install those tools to your virtual machines and take a new, clean snapshot.

This section covers various dynamic analysis tools and some of their features. Later in this chapter, you will understand how to use these tools to monitor the behavior of the malware while it is executing. You will need to run these tools with administrator privileges; this can be done by right-clicking on the executable and selecting Run as administrator. While you are reading, it is recommended that you run these tools and get familiar with their features.

3.1 Process Inspection with Process Hacker

Process Hacker (http://processhacker...