Network Intrusion Analysis

Chapter 7

Malware Analysis

Introduction

The process of malware analysis encompasses many skill sets that span several professions. Malware analysts must be somewhat familiar with programming languages, have a deep understanding of Windows internal operation and be what amounts to power users on many applications that are leveraged to investigate malicious code. The process of malware analysis consists of several areas; system analysis, code analysis, document analysis and web based analysis. Although there are these classifications for analysis, there are other terms that are used within the community as well. Static analysis encompasses examination of the code itself, which includes searching for ASCII text, debugging of the code, as well as ...