© Abhijit Mohanta, Anoop Saldanha 2020
A. Mohanta, A. SaldanhaMalware Analysis and Detection Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6193-4_12

12. Static Analysis

Abhijit Mohanta1  and Anoop Saldanha2
(1)
Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
(2)
Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Mangalore, Karnataka, India
 

Malware can be analyzed both with and without execution. Static analysis is the analysis of a sample without executing it, as opposed to executing it and analyzing its behavior, which is known as dynamic analysis. While static analysis of a sample might look like a wholly separate and independent phase in the analysis process, it is not! Analyzing a malware sample and its various artifacts is a constant back and ...

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