Section 1: Basic Techniques

The primary goal of Section 1 will be to, through examples, labs, and challenges, build a foundation for you to understand malware analysis and basic techniques that can be utilized to understand adversarial software.

We'll use case study labs to demonstrate the efficacy of even basic analysis techniques and how they have saved time, property, and sometimes the world in the past.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Creating and Maintaining Your Detonation Environment
• Chapter 2, Static Analysis – Techniques and Tooling
• Chapter 3, Dynamic Analysis – Techniques and Tooling
• Chapter 4, A Word on Automated Sandboxing