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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

Cybercrime, APT Attacks, and Research Strategies

Our modern world relies more and more on IT systems of various kinds. Being able to control them, as well as the information they may contain and process, is a strong power that attracts various types of criminals.

In this chapter, we are going to discuss the evolution of the cybercrime landscape up until now and the role of malware analysis in fighting it. Then we will dive into various types of attacks and associated malware to get an idea of possible attack stages and the logic behind them. In addition, we will learn different research strategies and approaches universal to all platforms that help malware analysts do their job, from collecting relevant telemetry and samples to performing Reverse Engineering (RE) tasks and answering specific questions.

In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:

  • Why malware analysis?
  • Exploring types of malware
  • The MITRE ATT&CK framework explained
  • APT and zero-day attacks and fileless malware
  • Choosing your analysis strategy
  • Setting up the environment