Learning Malware Analysis

Debugging Malicious Binaries

Debugging is a technique in which malicious code is executed in a controlled manner. A debugger is a program that gives you the ability to inspect malicious code at a more granular level. It provides full control over the malware's runtime behavior and allows you to execute a single instruction, multiple instructions, or select functions (instead of executing the entire program), while studying the malware's every action.

In this chapter, you will mainly learn the debugging features offered by IDA Pro (commercial disassembler/debugger) and x64dbg (open source x32/x64 debugger). You will learn about the features offered by these debuggers, and how to use them to inspect the runtime behavior of a program. Depending ...