Malware overview
Malware are malicious pieces of software that are designed to infiltrate and damage information systems without the users' consent. The term malware covers a lot of categories. There are many different types of malware:
- Viruses
- Ransomware
- Worms
- Trojans
- Backdoor
- Spyware
- Keyloggers
- Adware, bots, and rootkits
Malware analysis
Your job, as a malware analyst, is to discover exactly what happened to a system, and to make sure that the machines damaged by malicious software are isolated from the organization's network. In order to perform malware analysis, we need to follow specific operations and approaches. When it comes to malware analysis, we have to perform three techniques: static malware analysis, dynamic malware analysis, and memory malware analysis. We are going to look at them one by one.
Static malware analysis
The first step in malware analysis is gathering all of the information about the malware. Static analysis is the art of collecting all of the available information...
