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Learning Malware Analysis

You're reading from Learning Malware Analysis Explore the concepts, tools, and techniques to analyze and investigate Windows malware

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

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ISBN-13 9781788392501

Length 510 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Malware Analysis

Author (1):

Monnappa K A

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

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Preface

1. Introduction to Malware Analysis FREE CHAPTER

2. Static Analysis

3. Dynamic Analysis

4. Assembly Language and Disassembly Primer

5. Disassembly Using IDA

6. Debugging Malicious Binaries

7. Malware Functionalities and Persistence

8. Code Injection and Hooking

9. Malware Obfuscation Techniques

10. Hunting Malware Using Memory Forensics

11. Detecting Advanced Malware Using Memory Forensics

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4. Debugging a .NET Application

When performing malware analysis, you will have to deal with analyzing a wide variety of code. You are likely to encounter malware created using Microsoft Visual C/C++, Delphi, and the .NET framework. In this section, we will take a brief look at a tool called dnSpy (https://github.com/0xd4d/dnSpy), which makes analyzing .NET binaries much easier. It is quite effective when it comes to decompiling and debugging a .NET application. To load a .NET application, you can drag and drop the application into dnSpy, or launch dnSpy and select File | Open, giving it the path to the binary. Once the .NET application has loaded, dnSpy decompiles the application, and you can access the program's methods and classes in the left-hand window, named Assembly explorer. The following screenshot shows the main function of the decompiled .NET malicious binary (named SQLite.exe):

Once the binary has decompiled, you can either read the code (static code analysis) to determine the...

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Authors (1)

Monnappa K A

Monnappa K A

Monnappa K A works for Cisco Systems as an information security investigator focusing on threat intelligence and the investigation of advanced cyber attacks. He is a member of the Black Hat review board, the creator of Limon Linux sandbox, the winner of the Volatility plugin contest 2016, and the co-founder of the Cysinfo cybersecurity research community. He has presented and conducted training sessions at various security conferences including Black Hat, FIRST, OPCDE, and DSCI. He regularly conducts training at the Black Hat Security Conference in USA, Asia, and Europe.

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