The beauty of cross-platform compiled programs is in their flexibility as you don't need to port each program to different systems. In this chapter, we will take a look at how malware authors are trying to leverage these advantages for evil purposes. In addition, you will be provided with an arsenal of tools and techniques whose aim is to make analysis quick and efficient.
This chapter is divided into the following sections to facilitate the learning process:
- The basic theory of bytecode languages
- .NET explained
- .NET malware analysis
- The essentials of Visual Basic
- Dissecting Visual Basic samples
- The internals of Java samples
- Python—script language internals
- Analyzing compiled Python
