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Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803240244

Length 572 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Malware Analysis

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Amr Thabet

Alexey Kleymenov

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 Fundamental Theory

2. Chapter 1: Cybercrime, APT Attacks, and Research Strategies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: A Crash Course in Assembly and Programming Basics

4. Part 2 Diving Deep into Windows Malware

5. Chapter 3: Basic Static and Dynamic Analysis for x86/x64

6. Chapter 4: Unpacking, Decryption, and Deobfuscation

7. Chapter 5: Inspecting Process Injection and API Hooking

8. Chapter 6: Bypassing Anti-Reverse Engineering Techniques

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Kernel-Mode Rootkits

10. Part 3 Examining Cross-Platform and Bytecode-Based Malware

11. Chapter 8: Handling Exploits and Shellcode

12. Chapter 9: Reversing Bytecode Languages – .NET, Java, and More

13. Chapter 10: Scripts and Macros – Reversing, Deobfuscation, and Debugging

14. Part 4 Looking into IoT and Other Platforms

15. Chapter 11: Dissecting Linux and IoT Malware

16. Chapter 12: Introduction to macOS and iOS Threats

17. Chapter 13: Analyzing Android Malware Samples

18. Index

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Hooking mechanisms

In this section, we will explore different types of hooking mechanisms. In the following diagram, we can see various types of hooking techniques that rootkits use at different stages of the request processing flow:

Figure 7.6 – The hooking mechanisms of rootkits

Rootkits can install hooks at different stages of this process flow:

User-mode hooking/API hooking: These are the user-mode API hooking mechanisms that are used for hiding malware processes, files, registry keys, and more. We covered this in Chapter 5, Inspecting Process Injection and API Hooking.
SYSENTER hooking: This is the first option that's available for the kernel-mode rootkits to hook. In this case, they change the address that sysenter will transfer the execution to and intercept all requests from user mode to kernel mode.
SSDT hooking: This technique works more closely with the functions that the rootkit wants to hook. This type of hooking modifies...

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