PowerPC stands for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC—Performance Computing and sometimes spelled as PPC. It was created in the early 1990s by the alliance of Apple, IBM, and Motorola (commonly abbreviated as AIM). It was originally intended to be used in PCs and was powering Apple products including PowerBooks and iMacs up until 2006. The CPUs implementing it can also be found in game consoles such as Sony PlayStation 3, XBOX 360, and Wii, and in IBM servers and multiple embedded devices, such as car and plane controllers and even in the famous ASIMO robot. Later, the administrative responsibilities were transferred to an open standards body, Power.org, where some of the former creators remained members, such as IBM and Freescale. They then separated from Motorola and were later acquired by NXP Semiconductors, as well as many new entities. The OpenPOWER Foundation is a newer initiative by IBM, Google, NVIDIA, Mellanox, and Tyan, which is aiming...
Mastering Malware Analysis
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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)
Preface
A Crash Course in CISC/RISC and Programming Basics
Section 2: Diving Deep into Windows Malware
Basic Static and Dynamic Analysis for x86/x64
Unpacking, Decryption, and Deobfuscation
Inspecting Process Injection and API Hooking
Bypassing Anti-Reverse Engineering Techniques
Understanding Kernel-Mode Rootkits
Section 3: Examining Cross-Platform Malware
Handling Exploits and Shellcode
Reversing Bytecode Languages: .NET, Java, and More
Scripts and Macros: Reversing, Deobfuscation, and Debugging
Section 4: Looking into IoT and Other Platforms
Dissecting Linux and IoT Malware
Introduction to macOS and iOS Threats
Analyzing Android Malware Samples
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