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Mastering Malware Analysis

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789610789
Length 562 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alexey Kleymenov Alexey Kleymenov
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Amr Thabet Amr Thabet
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamental Theory FREE CHAPTER
2. A Crash Course in CISC/RISC and Programming Basics 3. Section 2: Diving Deep into Windows Malware
4. Basic Static and Dynamic Analysis for x86/x64 5. Unpacking, Decryption, and Deobfuscation 6. Inspecting Process Injection and API Hooking 7. Bypassing Anti-Reverse Engineering Techniques 8. Understanding Kernel-Mode Rootkits 9. Section 3: Examining Cross-Platform Malware
10. Handling Exploits and Shellcode 11. Reversing Bytecode Languages: .NET, Java, and More 12. Scripts and Macros: Reversing, Deobfuscation, and Debugging 13. Section 4: Looking into IoT and Other Platforms
14. Dissecting Linux and IoT Malware 15. Introduction to macOS and iOS Threats 16. Analyzing Android Malware Samples 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Dynamic API calling with checksum

Dynamic API calling is a famous anti-disassembling trick used by many malware families. The main reason behind using it is that this way, they hide API names from static analysis tools and make it harder to understand what each function inside the malware does.

For a malware author to implement this trick, they need to pre-calculate a checksum for this API name and push this value as an argument to a function that scans export tables of different libraries and searching for an API by this checksum. An example of this is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 11: Library and API names' checksums (hash)

The code for resolving the function actually goes through the PE header of the library, loops through the import table, and calculates the checksum of each API to compare it with the given checksum (or hash) that's provided as an argument.

The solution to this approach could require scripting to loop through all known API names and calculate...

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