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Learning Malware Analysis

You're reading from   Learning Malware Analysis Explore the concepts, tools, and techniques to analyze and investigate Windows malware

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788392501
Length 510 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to Malware Analysis FREE CHAPTER 2. Static Analysis 3. Dynamic Analysis 4. Assembly Language and Disassembly Primer 5. Disassembly Using IDA 6. Debugging Malicious Binaries 7. Malware Functionalities and Persistence 8. Code Injection and Hooking 9. Malware Obfuscation Techniques 10. Hunting Malware Using Memory Forensics 11. Detecting Advanced Malware Using Memory Forensics 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

11. Extracting Command History


After compromising the system, an attacker may execute various commands on the command shell to enumerate users, groups, and shares on your network, or an attacker may transfer a tool such as Mimikatz (https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz) to the comprised system and execute it to dump Windows credentials. Mimikatz is an open source tool that was written by Benjamin Delpy in 2011. It is one of the most popular tools for gathering credentials from Windows systems. Mimikatz is distributed in different flavors, such as the compiled version (https://github.com/gentilkiwi/mimikatz), and is part of PowerShell Modules such as PowerSploit (https://github.com/PowerShellMafia/PowerSploit) and PowerShell Empire (https://github.com/EmpireProject/Empire).

Command history can provide valuable information about an attacker's activity on the compromised system. By examining the command history, you can determine information such as the commands that have been executed, programs...

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