Malware Analysis and Detection Engineering: A Comprehensive Approach to Detect and Analyze Modern Malware

© Abhijit Mohanta, Anoop Saldanha 2020

A. Mohanta, A. SaldanhaMalware Analysis and Detection Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6193-4_16

16. Debuggers and Assembly Language

Abhijit Mohanta¹  and Anoop Saldanha²

(1)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

(2)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

 

In the previous chapters we spoke about analyzing malware samples both statically and dynamically. From the analysis techniques we discussed, we might be able to derive most of the times if a sample file is malware or not. But sometimes malware may not execute in the malware analysis environment, due to various armoring mechanisms implemented inside the malware sample to dissuade analysis and even ...