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Mastering Malware Analysis - Second Edition

By : Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet
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Book Image

Mastering Malware Analysis - Second Edition

5 (2)
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)
1
Part 1 Fundamental Theory
4
Part 2 Diving Deep into Windows Malware
10
Part 3 Examining Cross-Platform and Bytecode-Based Malware
14
Part 4 Looking into IoT and Other Platforms

Summary

In this chapter, we covered various types of packers and explained the differences between them. We also gave recommendations on how we can identify the packer that’s being used. Then, we went through several techniques of how to unpack samples both automatically and manually and provided real-world examples of how to do so in the most efficient way, depending on the context. After this, we covered advanced manual unpacking methods that generally take more time to execute but give you the ability to unpack virtually any sample in a meaningful time frame.

Furthermore, we covered different encryption algorithms and provided guidelines on how to identify and handle them. Then, we went through a modern malware example that incorporated these guidelines so that you could get an idea of how all this theory can be applied in practice. Finally, we covered IDA script languages – a powerful way to drastically speed up the analysis process.

In Chapter 5, Inspecting...