Why should I analyze malware?

Let's start by defining malware analysis as a process to analyze malware (software, script, Uniform Resource Locator (URL), and so on) to gather as much information as possible about the threat.

This is considered a very technical task that demands highly skilled professionals, and these resources could be very expensive for companies to afford. Additionally, this task could also be very time-consuming, which increases the cost of performing this analysis even more. However, even companies with strong budgets may not invest in malware analysis, and the reason is that they have not realized the benefits of this investment.

Therefore, let's start by describing the main benefits and outputs of performing malware analysis.

Malware functionality

One of the main goals of malware analysis is to discover the inner functionality of the malware. This step is of the uttermost importance because it will support the containment efforts after...