Malware: Fighting Malicious Code

Conclusion

The theories which I have expressed, and which appear to you to be so chimerical, are really extremely practical—so practical that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese.

—Sherlock Holmes, from A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1887

In this chapter, we've discussed how you can build a malware analysis lab of your very own. Perhaps I'm unusual, but I genuinely enjoy the countless hours I spend in my own lab, punching away at various types of malware to determine their hidden secrets. I feel like Sherlock Holmes, and my trusty lab acts like my assistant, Dr. Watson. Or perhaps I'm Watson and the lab is Holmes. Either way, with your own lab, you'll be able to follow this malware analysis process to see how ...