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Malware Analysis Techniques

By : Dylan Barker
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Malware Analysis Techniques

By: Dylan Barker

Overview of this book

Malicious software poses a threat to every enterprise globally. Its growth is costing businesses millions of dollars due to currency theft as a result of ransomware and lost productivity. With this book, you'll learn how to quickly triage, identify, attribute, and remediate threats using proven analysis techniques. Malware Analysis Techniques begins with an overview of the nature of malware, the current threat landscape, and its impact on businesses. Once you've covered the basics of malware, you'll move on to discover more about the technical nature of malicious software, including static characteristics and dynamic attack methods within the MITRE ATT&CK framework. You'll also find out how to perform practical malware analysis by applying all that you've learned to attribute the malware to a specific threat and weaponize the adversary's indicators of compromise (IOCs) and methodology against them to prevent them from attacking. Finally, you'll get to grips with common tooling utilized by professional malware analysts and understand the basics of reverse engineering with the NSA's Ghidra platform. By the end of this malware analysis book, you’ll be able to perform in-depth static and dynamic analysis and automate key tasks for improved defense against attacks.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Basic Techniques
6
Section 2: Debugging and Anti-Analysis – Going Deep
11
Section 3: Reporting and Weaponizing Your Findings
14
Section 4: Challenge Solutions

Using Any.Run

Another very popular choice among malware analysts for the automated detonation of malware is Any.Run, located at https://app.any.run. Navigating to the page for this, the browser will present the following home page:

Figure 4.13 – The Any.Run home page

Figure 4.13 – The Any.Run home page

Any.Run has a very polished home page, with a heatmap showing the sources of detonations, interesting samples, trending malware families, and other information. In the upper left-hand corner, we have the ability to start a new task and detonate our sample. One key difference is that we must create an account on Any.Run in order to make use of the detonation sandbox.

Once our account is created, we may begin to detonate our sample by clicking the New Task button:

Figure 4.14 – The new task pane in Any.Run

Figure 4.14 – The new task pane in Any.Run

Once we click to begin the task, we are presented with the name of the file, and a warning that this submission will be shared publicly, as...