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Mastering Malware Analysis

Mastering Malware Analysis

By : Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet
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Mastering Malware Analysis

Mastering Malware Analysis

4.5 (10)
By: Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet

Overview of this book

With the ever-growing proliferation of technology, the risk of encountering malicious code or malware has also increased. Malware analysis has become one of the most trending topics in businesses in recent years due to multiple prominent ransomware attacks. Mastering Malware Analysis explains the universal patterns behind different malicious software types and how to analyze them using a variety of approaches. You will learn how to examine malware code and determine the damage it can possibly cause to your systems to ensure that it won't propagate any further. Moving forward, you will cover all aspects of malware analysis for the Windows platform in detail. Next, you will get to grips with obfuscation and anti-disassembly, anti-debugging, as well as anti-virtual machine techniques. This book will help you deal with modern cross-platform malware. Throughout the course of this book, you will explore real-world examples of static and dynamic malware analysis, unpacking and decrypting, and rootkit detection. Finally, this book will help you strengthen your defenses and prevent malware breaches for IoT devices and mobile platforms. By the end of this book, you will have learned to effectively analyze, investigate, and build innovative solutions to handle any malware incidents.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamental Theory
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Section 2: Diving Deep into Windows Malware
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Unpacking, Decryption, and Deobfuscation
9
Section 3: Examining Cross-Platform Malware
13
Section 4: Looking into IoT and Other Platforms

DEP and full ASLR – heap spray technique

The idea behind this technique is to make multiple addresses lead to the shellcode by filling the memory of the application with lots of copies of it, which will lead to its execution with a very high probability. The main problem here is guaranteeing that these addresses point to the start of it and not to the middle. This can be achieved by having a huge amount of nop bytes (called NOP slide, NOP sled, or NOP ramp), or any instructions that don't have any major effect, such as xor ecx, ecx:

Figure 10: Heap spray technique

As you can see, the attacker here used the 0x0a0a0a0a address to point to its shellcode. Because of the heap spraying, this address could actually point to a nop instruction in one of the shellcode blocks that will later lead to the start of the shellcode.

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