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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 familiarized ourselves with Windows kernel mode and learned how requests are passed from user mode to kernel mode and back again. Then, we discussed rootkits, what parts of this process may be targeted by them, and for what reason. We also covered various techniques that are implemented in modern rootkits, including how existing security mechanisms can be bypassed by malware.

Finally, we explored the tools that are available to perform static and dynamic analysis of kernel-mode threats, learned how to set up a testing environment, and summarized generic guidelines that can be followed when performing the analysis. By completing this chapter, you should have a strong understanding of how advanced kernel-mode threats work and how they can be analyzed using various tools and approaches.

In Chapter 8, Handling Exploits and Shellcode, we will explore the various types of exploits and learn how legitimate software can be abused to let attackers perform malicious...