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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
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Section 3: Examining Cross-Platform Malware
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Section 4: Looking into IoT and Other Platforms

Bypassing driver signature enforcement

Apart from the ability to use stolen certificates to sign the malicious driver (an example of this could be Stuxnet drivers), it's also possible to disable the driver signature enforcement option using the Command Prompt, as follows:

bcdedit.exe /set testsigning on

In this case, the system will start allowing drivers to be signed with certificates that are not issued by Microsoft. This command requires administrator privileges and the machine to be restarted afterwards. However, with the help of social engineering, it's possible to trick the user into making it. Another option that used to be available was to execute the bcdedit /set nointegritychecks on command, but, currently, this option is ignored on major modern versions of Windows.

Additionally, some malware families abuse vulnerable signed drivers of legitimate products, which either have code execution vulnerabilities or vulnerabilities that allow for the modification of arbitrary...

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