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_9

9. Network Communication

Abhijit Mohanta¹  and Anoop Saldanha²

(1)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

(2)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

 

Network communication is an integral part of most cyberattacks, as seen in the cyber kill chain that we discussed in Chapter 1. Victims can be infected with malware by other mediums also, including USB disks, but the use of network communications is probably the most widely used mechanism since most devices use the network for some form of communication. These days pretty much every device is connected with ...