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Mastering Malware Analysis
Mastering Malware Analysis

Mastering Malware Analysis: The complete malware analyst's guide to combating malicious software, APT, cybercrime, and IoT attacks

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Mastering Malware Analysis

Section 1: Fundamental Theory

In this section, you will be introduced to the core concepts required to successfully perform the static analysis of samples for various platforms, including the basics of architectures and assembly. While you may already have some prior knowledge of the x86 family, less common architectures, such as PowerPC or SH-4, are also extensively targeted by malware nowadays, so they shouldn't be underestimated. The following chapter is included in this section:

  • Chapter 1, A Crash Course in CISC/RISC and Programming Basics
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Key benefits

  • Set up and model solutions, investigate malware, and prevent it from occurring in future
  • Learn core concepts of dynamic malware analysis, memory forensics, decryption, and much more
  • A practical guide to developing innovative solutions to numerous malware incidents

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you are an IT security administrator, forensic analyst, or malware researcher looking to secure against malicious software or investigate malicious code, this book is for you. Prior programming experience and a fair understanding of malware attacks and investigation is expected.

What you will learn

  • Explore widely used assembly languages to strengthen your reverse-engineering skills
  • Master different executable file formats, programming languages, and relevant APIs used by attackers
  • Perform static and dynamic analysis for multiple platforms and file types
  • Get to grips with handling sophisticated malware cases
  • Understand real advanced attacks, covering all stages from infiltration to hacking the system
  • Learn to bypass anti-reverse engineering techniques
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Table of Contents

17 Chapters
Section 1: Fundamental Theory Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
A Crash Course in CISC/RISC and Programming Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Diving Deep into Windows Malware Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Basic Static and Dynamic Analysis for x86/x64 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Unpacking, Decryption, and Deobfuscation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Unpacking, Decryption, and Deobfuscation
Exploring packers
Exploring packing and encrypting tools
Identifying a packed sample
Technique 1 – checking PE tool static signatures
Technique 2 – evaluating PE section names
Technique 3 – using stub execution signs
Technique 4 – detecting a small import table
Automatically unpacking packed samples
Technique 1 – the official unpacking process
Technique 2 – using OllyScript with OllyDbg
Technique 3 – using generic unpackers
Technique 4 – emulation
Technique 5 – memory dumps
Manual unpacking using OllyDbg
Technique 6 – memory breakpoint on execution
Step 1 – setting the breakpoints
Step 2 – turning on Data Execution Prevention
Step 3 – preventing any further attempts to change memory permissions
Step 4 – executing and getting the OEP
Technique 7 – call stack backtracing
Step 1 – setting the breakpoints
Step 2 – following the call stack
Step 3 – reaching the OEP
Technique 8 – monitoring memory allocated spaces for unpacked code
Technique 9 – in-place unpacking
Technique 10 – stack restoration-based
Dumping the unpacked sample and fixing the import table
Dumping the process
Fixing the import table
Identifying different encryption algorithms and functions
Types of encryption algorithms
Basic encryption algorithms
How to identify encryption functions
String search detection techniques for simple algorithms
The basics of X-RAYING
Simple static encryption
Other encryption algorithms
X-RAYING tools for malware analysis and detection
Identifying the RC4 encryption algorithm
The RC4 encryption algorithm
Key-scheduling algorithm
Pseudo-random generation algorithm
Identifying RC4 algorithms in a malware sample
Standard symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms
Extracting information from Windows cryptography APIs
Step 1 – initializing and connecting to the cryptographic service provider (CSP)
Step 2 – preparing the key
Step 3 – encrypting or decrypting the data
Step 4 – freeing the memory
Cryptography API next generation (CNG)
Applications of encryption in modern malware – Vawtrak banking Trojan
String and API name encryption
Network communication encryption
Using IDA for decryption and unpacking
IDA tips and tricks
Static analysis
Dynamic analysis
Classic and new syntax of IDA scripts
Dynamic string decryption
Dynamic WinAPIs resolution
Summary
Inspecting Process Injection and API Hooking Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Bypassing Anti-Reverse Engineering Techniques Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Understanding Kernel-Mode Rootkits Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Examining Cross-Platform Malware Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Handling Exploits and Shellcode Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Reversing Bytecode Languages: .NET, Java, and More Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Scripts and Macros: Reversing, Deobfuscation, and Debugging Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 4: Looking into IoT and Other Platforms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Dissecting Linux and IoT Malware Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introduction to macOS and iOS Threats Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Analyzing Android Malware Samples Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The best book available for mastering Malware Analysis. It helped me a lot for strengthening my skills. A little bit complex but really helpful and recommend to all.
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Currently going through book while taking the Malware Analyst’s Mindset course by Amr Thabet. Both the book and course have been informative thus far. Fills a lot of the holes left after reading books like Practical Malware Analysis and Malware analysts cookbook.
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This book is excellent. Clear and concise and the topics are given in an order that really is great for following along with.
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Beginners will find it very useful as it easy to follow. Very good reference for advanced analysts.
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Although I have not yet finished reading the book, I have found it to be a good balance between intermediate and advanced ideas.I would not recommend this for people with no assembly language understanding. The introductory sections covering AL are better considered as refreshers rather than primers. As someone who learned assembly on 6502 in the 80's and last touched AL on 8080's in the 90's, it was a good refresher and explained various processor architectures and approaches in just enough detail. Should a reader need more information on a specific platform, there are more than enough other reference works to provide that.Some readers and commenters have pointed out that the book has a number of typographic and grammatical errors. The version I have has some errors, but not so many as to affect the readability, and I've learned from tutors at institutes whose spelling and grammar are worse than the minimal errors I've found so far.To those inclined to complain about the errors, I would offer this advice - approach the authors with details of the errors you've found, they will welcome your input. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.Buy this book, help support the authors, learn some good concepts and ideas.
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