Malware overview

Malware are malicious pieces of software that are designed to infiltrate and damage information systems without the users' consent. The term malware covers a lot of categories. There are many different types of malware:

• Viruses
• Ransomware
• Worms
• Trojans
• Backdoor
• Spyware
• Keyloggers
• Adware, bots, and rootkits

Malware analysis

Your job, as a malware analyst, is to discover exactly what happened to a system, and to make sure that the machines damaged by malicious software are isolated from the organization's network. In order to perform malware analysis, we need to follow specific operations and approaches. When it comes to malware analysis, we have to perform three techniques: static malware...