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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

Encryption

Apple uses its own Apple FileSystem (APFS) that presents multiple modern features, including strong encryption. All Mac computers are shipped with the FileVault disk encryption system that utilizes the XTS-AES-128 algorithm to protect critical data. It is also possible to encrypt the whole disk and make it accessible only with valid credentials or a recovery key (FileVault 2). Once the user enables the FileVault feature, it is required to authenticate before using the Target Disk Mode, where a device can be attached to another machine and become accessible as an external device. Newer models of Mac computers are shipped with a dedicated Apple T2 chip and have the disk encryption enabled by default. In this case, optional FileVault provides extra protection by requiring credentials to be provided before decryption, otherwise, encrypted SSDs can be decrypted by simply attaching them to the corresponding Mac. In addition, the Apple T2 security chip enables Secure Boot to implement...