You're reading from Malware Development for Ethical Hackers Learn how to develop various types of malware to strengthen cybersecurity

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810173

Length 390 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Mr. Zhassulan Zhussupov

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Malware Behavior: Injection, Persistence, and Privilege Escalation Techniques FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: A Quick Introduction to Malware Development

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Various Malware Injection Attacks

4. Chapter 3: Mastering Malware Persistence Mechanisms

5. Chapter 4: Mastering Privilege Escalation on Compromised Systems

6. Part 2: Evasion Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Anti-Debugging Tricks

8. Chapter 6: Navigating Anti-Virtual Machine Strategies

9. Chapter 7: Strategies for Anti-Disassembly

10. Chapter 8: Navigating the Antivirus Labyrinth – a Game of Cat and Mouse

11. Part 3: Math and Cryptography in Malware

12. Chapter 9: Exploring Hash Algorithms

13. Chapter 10: Simple Ciphers

14. Chapter 11: Unveiling Common Cryptography in Malware

15. Chapter 12: Advanced Math Algorithms and Custom Encoding

16. Part 4: Real-World Malware Examples

17. Chapter 13: Classic Malware Examples

18. Chapter 14: APT and Cybercrime

19. Chapter 15: Malware Source Code Leaks

20. Chapter 16: Ransomware and Modern Threats

21. Index

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Payload protection – cryptography for obfuscation

As mentioned in Chapter 8, cryptographic algorithms can also be used to encrypt and decrypt payloads.

But in this section, I want to share a useful trick regarding how you can try to automate the process of payload obfuscation. Of course, you can use popular tools such as msfvenom (Metasploit framework), but let’s do it ourselves. It will be easier to understand what we are doing in practice.

Practical example

Let’s look at another example. In this section, we’ll create a template for a classic payload injection example, as shown in this book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Malware-Development-for-Ethical-Hackers/blob/main/chapter11/03-payload-obfuscation-automation/temp.c.

This C code serves as a template for classic payload injection. It opens a specified process, decrypts and injects a payload into its memory, and then starts a remote thread to execute the injected...