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Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810173

Length 390 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cybersecurity

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Mr. Zhassulan Zhussupov

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Malware Behavior: Injection, Persistence, and Privilege Escalation Techniques FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: A Quick Introduction to Malware Development

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Various Malware Injection Attacks

4. Chapter 3: Mastering Malware Persistence Mechanisms

5. Chapter 4: Mastering Privilege Escalation on Compromised Systems

6. Part 2: Evasion Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Anti-Debugging Tricks

8. Chapter 6: Navigating Anti-Virtual Machine Strategies

9. Chapter 7: Strategies for Anti-Disassembly

10. Chapter 8: Navigating the Antivirus Labyrinth – a Game of Cat and Mouse

11. Part 3: Math and Cryptography in Malware

12. Chapter 9: Exploring Hash Algorithms

13. Chapter 10: Simple Ciphers

14. Chapter 11: Unveiling Common Cryptography in Malware

15. Chapter 12: Advanced Math Algorithms and Custom Encoding

16. Part 4: Real-World Malware Examples

17. Chapter 13: Classic Malware Examples

18. Chapter 14: APT and Cybercrime

19. Chapter 15: Malware Source Code Leaks

20. Chapter 16: Ransomware and Modern Threats

21. Index

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Crashing malware analysis tools

Various techniques can be used to crash analysis tools, such as highly complicated recursive functions that cause IDA/Ghidra or any other tool to run out of memory and crash, as well as the virtual machine it’s being run on.

Practical example

Here’s a simple example in C that demonstrates a technique for crashing analysis tools by using highly complicated recursive functions: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Malware-Development-for-Ethical-Hackers/blob/main/chapter07/05-crashing-tools/hack.c.

In this practical example, recFunction is intentionally designed to consume a large amount of stack space due to its recursive nature. When called with a large input value, it can cause a stack overflow, leading to the analysis tool or virtual machine attempting to execute it crashing.

Compile it:

$ x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ hack.c -o hack.exe -I/usr/share/mingw-w64/include/ -s -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -Wno-write-strings -fno...

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