Malware analysis lab

What is a malware analysis lab, and why should we build a malware lab? Malware lab is a safe environment to analyze malware. Basically, it is an isolated environment which contains a lot of useful tools for malware analysts that helps them in analyzing the malicious software. We should build a malware lab to be more proactive to new and modern threats that can suddenly attack our organization. It is also a form of advanced detection before antivirus vendors found a new malware specimen. The scope of the malware analysis lab can be determined by examining the processes that will occur in the malware analysis process.

Static analysis involves disassembling and reverse engineering the code of the malware. This can be done in a ...

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