You're reading from Malware Analysis Techniques Tricks for the triage of adversarial software

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839212277

Length 282 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

VMware Server

Concepts

Malware Analysis

Author (1):

Dylan Barker

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Basic Techniques

2. Chapter 1: Creating and Maintaining your Detonation Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Static Analysis – Techniques and Tooling

4. Chapter 3: Dynamic Analysis – Techniques and Tooling

5. Chapter 4: A Word on Automated Sandboxing

6. Section 2: Debugging and Anti-Analysis – Going Deep

7. Chapter 5: Advanced Static Analysis – Out of the White Noise

8. Chapter 6: Advanced Dynamic Analysis – Looking at Explosions

9. Chapter 7: Advanced Dynamic Analysis Part 2 – Refusing to Take the Blue Pill

10. Chapter 8: De-Obfuscating Malicious Scripts: Putting the Toothpaste Back in the Tube

11. Section 3: Reporting and Weaponizing Your Findings

12. Chapter 9: The Reverse Card: Weaponizing IOCs and OSINT for Defense

13. Chapter 10: Malicious Functionality: Mapping Your Sample to MITRE ATT&CK

14. Section 4: Challenge Solutions

15. Chapter 11: Challenge Solutions

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Avoiding rediscovery of the wheel

We have already established a great way of gaining information about a file via cryptographic hashing—akin to a file's fingerprint. Utilizing this information, we can leverage other analysts' hard work to ensure we do not dive deeper into analysis and waste time if someone has already analyzed our malware sample.

Leveraging VirusTotal

A wonderful tool that is widely utilized by analysts is VirusTotal. VirusTotal is a scanning engine that scans possible malware samples against several antivirus (AV) engines and reports their findings.

In addition to this functionality, it maintains a database that is free to search by hash. Navigating to https://virustotal.com/ will present this screen:

Figure 2.4 – The VirusTotal home page

In this instance, we'll use as an example a 275a021bbfb6489e54d471899f7db9d1 663fc695ec2fe2a2c4538aabf651fd0f SHA256 hash. Entering this hash into VirusTotal and...