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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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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

Data transfer instructions

There's a mov instruction, which copies a value from src to dest. This instruction has multiple forms, as we can see in this table:

Instruction

Structure

Description

mov

mov dest, src

dest = src

movsx/movzx

movsx/movzx dest , src

src is smaller than dest (src is 16-bits and dest is 32-bits)
movzx: Sets the remaining bits in dest to zero
movsx: Preserves the sign of the src value

Other instructions related to stack are like this:

Instruction

Structure

Description

push/pop

push/pop dest

Pushes the value to the top of the stack (esp = esp - 4)/ pulls the value out of the stack (esp = esp + 4)

pushad/popad

pushad/popad

Saves all registers to the stack/pulls out all registers from the stack (in x86 only)

For string manipulation, they are like this:

Instruction Structure Description
lodsb/lodsw/lodsd/lodsq lodsb/lodsw/lodsd/lodsq Loads a byte, 2 bytes, 4 bytes, or 8 bytes from the address rsi/esi...
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