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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

Dealing with anti-reverse engineering solutions

There is an impressive amount of commercial obfuscators for Java available on the market at the moment. As for malware, many of them use either cracked versions or demo and leaked licences. An example is the Allatori Obfuscator, which is misused by Adwind RAT.

When the obfuscator's name is confirmed (for example, by unique strings), it generally makes sense to check whether any of the existing deobfuscation tools support it. Here are some of them:

  • Java Deobfuscator (https://github.com/java-deobfuscator/): A versatile project that supports a decent amount of commercial protectors
  • JMD: A Java bytecode analysis and deobfuscation tool that is able to remove obfuscation implemented by multiple well-known protectors
  • Java DeObfuscator (JDO): A general-purpose deobfuscator that implements several universal techniques, such as renaming obfuscated values to be unique and indicative to their data type
  • jrename: Another universal deobfuscator that...