Best malware analysis tools
Let's do a review of the top five tools used for malware analysis. This compilation includes tools from all types and categories of malware analysis.
Process Explorer
This tool is basically a super task manager that provides you with a lot of information about the processes running in your system.
It tells you the location of the file, the autorun settings, a dedicated performance graph of the process (useful to find anomalous patterns), and, as seen in the following screenshot, it has an option to check every process with the database of VirusTotal.com, which is very useful if you want to test suspicious processes:
Figure 14.4 – Checking a running process using Process Explorer with VirusTotal.com
This tool is basic but is free and supported by Microsoft, so it is definitely a good place to start.
To download it, visit the official site at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer...
