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Learning Malware Analysis

Learning Malware Analysis

By : Monnappa K A
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Learning Malware Analysis

Learning Malware Analysis

4.7 (31)
By: Monnappa K A

Overview of this book

Malware analysis and memory forensics are powerful analysis and investigation techniques used in reverse engineering, digital forensics, and incident response. With adversaries becoming sophisticated and carrying out advanced malware attacks on critical infrastructures, data centers, and private and public organizations, detecting, responding to, and investigating such intrusions is critical to information security professionals. Malware analysis and memory forensics have become must-have skills to fight advanced malware, targeted attacks, and security breaches. This book teaches you the concepts, techniques, and tools to understand the behavior and characteristics of malware through malware analysis. It also teaches you techniques to investigate and hunt malware using memory forensics. This book introduces you to the basics of malware analysis, and then gradually progresses into the more advanced concepts of code analysis and memory forensics. It uses real-world malware samples, infected memory images, and visual diagrams to help you gain a better understanding of the subject and to equip you with the skills required to analyze, investigate, and respond to malware-related incidents.
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3. Custom Encoding/Encryption


Sometimes, attackers use custom encoding/encryption schemes, which makes it difficult to identify the crypto (and the key), and it also makes reverse engineering harder. One of the custom encoding methods is to use a combination of encoding and encryption to obfuscate the data; an example of such a malware is Etumbot (https://www.arbornetworks.com/blog/asert/illuminating-the-etumbot-apt-backdoor/). The Etumbot malware sample, when executed, obtains the RC4 key from the C2 server; it then uses the obtained RC4 key to encrypt the system information (such as hostname, username, and IP address), and the encrypted content is further encoded using custom Base64 and exfiltrated to the C2. The C2 communication containing the obfuscated content is shown in the following screenshot. For reverse engineering details of this sample, refer to the Author's presentation and the video demo (https://cysinfo.com/12th-meetup-reversing-decrypting-malware-communications/):

To deobfuscate...

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