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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

4.6 (9)
By: Alexey Kleymenov, Amr Thabet

Overview of this book

New and developing technologies inevitably bring new types of malware with them, creating a huge demand for IT professionals that can keep malware at bay. With the help of this updated second edition of Mastering Malware Analysis, you’ll be able to add valuable reverse-engineering skills to your CV and learn how to protect organizations in the most efficient way. This book will familiarize you with multiple universal patterns behind different malicious software types and teach you how to analyze them using a variety of approaches. You'll learn how to examine malware code and determine the damage it can possibly cause to systems, along with ensuring that the right prevention or remediation steps are followed. As you cover all aspects of malware analysis for Windows, Linux, macOS, and mobile platforms in detail, you’ll also get to grips with obfuscation, anti-debugging, and other advanced anti-reverse-engineering techniques. The skills you acquire in this cybersecurity book will help you deal with all types of modern malware, strengthen your defenses, and prevent or promptly mitigate breaches regardless of the platforms involved. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to efficiently analyze samples, investigate suspicious activity, and build innovative solutions to handle malware incidents.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Part 1 Fundamental Theory
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Part 2 Diving Deep into Windows Malware
10
Part 3 Examining Cross-Platform and Bytecode-Based Malware
14
Part 4 Looking into IoT and Other Platforms

Static and dynamic analysis of RISC samples

Generally, it is much easier to find tools for more widespread architectures, such as x86. Still, there are plenty of options available to analyze samples that have been built for other instruction sets. As a rule of thumb, always check whether you can get the same sample compiled for an architecture you have more experience with. This way, you can save lots of time and provide a higher-quality report.

All basic tools, such as file type detectors, as well as data carving tools, will more than likely process samples associated with most of the architectures that currently exist. Online DisAssembler (ODA) supports multiple architectures, so it shouldn’t be a problem for it either. In addition, powerful tools such as IDA, Ghidra, and radare2 will also handle the static analysis part in most cases, regardless of the host architecture. If the engineer has access to the physical RISC machine to run the corresponding sample, it is always...

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