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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

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at the different code injection techniques used by malicious programs to inject and execute malicious code within the context of a legitimate process. These techniques allow an attacker to perform malicious actions and bypass various security products. Apart from executing malicious code, an attacker can hijack the API functions called by a legitimate process (using hooking) and redirect control to the malicious code to monitor, block, or even filter an API's output, thereby altering a program's behavior. In the next chapter, you will learn the various obfuscation techniques used by adversaries to remain undetected from security monitoring solutions.