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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803240244

Length 572 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Malware Analysis

Authors (2):

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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Getting familiar with vulnerabilities and exploits

In this section, we will cover what major categories of vulnerabilities and exploits exist and how they are related to each other. We will explain how an attacker can take advantage of a bug (or multiple bugs) to take control of the application (or maybe the whole system) by performing unauthorized actions in its context.

Types of vulnerabilities

A vulnerability is a bug or weakness inside an application that can be exploited or abused by an attacker to perform unauthorized actions. There are various types of vulnerabilities, most of which are caused by insecure coding practices and mistakes. You should pay attention when processing any input controlled by the end user, including environment variables and dependency modules. In this section, we will explore the most common cases and learn how attackers can leverage them.

The stack overflow vulnerability

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Types of vulnerabilities

The stack overflow vulnerability

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