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Mastering Malware Analysis

By : Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet
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Mastering Malware Analysis

By: Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet

Overview of this book

With the ever-growing proliferation of technology, the risk of encountering malicious code or malware has also increased. Malware analysis has become one of the most trending topics in businesses in recent years due to multiple prominent ransomware attacks. Mastering Malware Analysis explains the universal patterns behind different malicious software types and how to analyze them using a variety of approaches. You will learn how to examine malware code and determine the damage it can possibly cause to your systems to ensure that it won't propagate any further. Moving forward, you will cover all aspects of malware analysis for the Windows platform in detail. Next, you will get to grips with obfuscation and anti-disassembly, anti-debugging, as well as anti-virtual machine techniques. This book will help you deal with modern cross-platform malware. Throughout the course of this book, you will explore real-world examples of static and dynamic malware analysis, unpacking and decrypting, and rootkit detection. Finally, this book will help you strengthen your defenses and prevent malware breaches for IoT devices and mobile platforms. By the end of this book, you will have learned to effectively analyze, investigate, and build innovative solutions to handle any malware incidents.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Fundamental Theory
3
Section 2: Diving Deep into Windows Malware
5
Unpacking, Decryption, and Deobfuscation
9
Section 3: Examining Cross-Platform Malware
13
Section 4: Looking into IoT and Other Platforms

Logical vulnerabilities

A logical vulnerability is a vulnerability that doesn't require memory corruption to be executed. Instead, it abuses the application logic to perform unintended actions. A good example of this is CVE-2010-2729 (MS10-061), named Windows Print Spooler Service Vulnerability, which is used by Stuxnet malware. Let's dig deeper into how it works.

Windows printing APIs allow the user to choose the directory that he or she wishes to copy the file to be printed to. So, with an API named GetSpoolFileHandle, the attacker can get the file handle of the newly created file on the target machine and then easily write any data there with the WriteFile (or similar) API. A vulnerability like this one targets the application logic, which allows the attacker to choose the directory they wish and provides them with the file handle to overwrite this file with any data he or she wants.

Different logical vulnerabilities are possible, and there is no specific format for them...