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Evasive Malware
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Evasive Malware

by Kyle Cucci
September 2024
Intermediate to advanced
488 pages
13h 29m
English
No Starch Press
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1 WINDOWS FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS

To understand your adversary, first you must understand the battlefield. In our case, the battlefield is the Windows operating system and its underlying components. This chapter will provide an overview of the Windows architecture and introduce the fundamental concepts you’ll need in order to understand the more advanced topics covered in later chapters of this book.

Windows Architecture Overview

Windows is a complex operating system (OS) with an equally complex architecture. In this section, I’ll introduce some of its key concepts, and as we proceed through the chapter, I’ll revisit and elaborate on them. ...

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