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Mastering Malware Analysis

Mastering Malware Analysis - Second Edition

By : Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet
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Mastering Malware Analysis

Mastering Malware Analysis

4.4 (7)
By: Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet

Overview of this book

New and developing technologies inevitably bring new types of malware with them, creating a huge demand for IT professionals that can keep malware at bay. With the help of this updated second edition of Mastering Malware Analysis, you’ll be able to add valuable reverse-engineering skills to your CV and learn how to protect organizations in the most efficient way. This book will familiarize you with multiple universal patterns behind different malicious software types and teach you how to analyze them using a variety of approaches. You'll learn how to examine malware code and determine the damage it can possibly cause to systems, along with ensuring that the right prevention or remediation steps are followed. As you cover all aspects of malware analysis for Windows, Linux, macOS, and mobile platforms in detail, you’ll also get to grips with obfuscation, anti-debugging, and other advanced anti-reverse-engineering techniques. The skills you acquire in this cybersecurity book will help you deal with all types of modern malware, strengthen your defenses, and prevent or promptly mitigate breaches regardless of the platforms involved. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to efficiently analyze samples, investigate suspicious activity, and build innovative solutions to handle malware incidents.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Part 1 Fundamental Theory
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Part 2 Diving Deep into Windows Malware
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Part 3 Examining Cross-Platform and Bytecode-Based Malware
14
Part 4 Looking into IoT and Other Platforms

Dissecting Visual Basic samples

Now that we have gained some knowledge of the essentials of Visual Basic, it’s time to shift our focus and learn how to dissect Visual Basic samples. In this section, we are going to perform a detailed static and dynamic analysis.

Static analysis

The common part of VB malware is that the code generally gets executed as part of the SubMain routine and event handlers, where timer and form load events are particularly typical.

As we have already mentioned, the choice of tools will be defined by the compilation mode that’s used when creating a malware sample.

P-code

For p-code samples, VB Decompiler can be used to get access to its internals. The Lite version is free and provides access to the p-code disassembly, which may be enough for most cases. If the engineer doesn’t have enough expertise or time to deal with the p-code syntax, then the paid full version provides a powerful decompiler that produces more readable Visual...

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