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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 have covered two very well-known techniques that are used by many malware families: process injection and API hooking. These techniques are used for many reasons, including disguising the malware, bypassing firewalls, maintaining persistence for fileless malware, MITB attacks, among others.

We have covered how to deal with code injection using dynamic analysis, as well as how to detect code injection and API hooking and how to analyze them using memory forensics.

After reading this chapter, you will now have a greater understanding of complex malware and how it can be injected into legitimate processes. This will help you to analyze cyberattacks incorporating various techniques and protect your organization from future threats more effectively.

In Chapter 6, Bypassing Anti-Reverse Engineering Techniques, we will cover other techniques that are used by malware authors to make it harder for reverse engineers to analyze samples and understand their...