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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

Android debug bridge

Android debug bridge (ADB) is a versatile command-line tool that lets users interact with mobile devices from the PC, providing a variety of actions. It is part of the Android SDK Platform Tools and consists of three parts:

  • A client running on the PC, providing an interface to enter commands.
  • A daemon (adbd) executing entered commands on the mobile device. It runs as a background process on all devices.
  • A server running on the PC that manages communication between the client and the daemon.

On the device, ADB debugging can be enabled explicitly using the USB Debugging option under Developer options in Settings. On a modern Android OS, this option is hidden by default and can become visible by tapping the Build number option (usually, can be found in Settings | About phone) option multiple times and then returning to the previous screen. In addition to real devices, a server can also recognize and work with Android emulators.

In addition to accessing the device via...