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Practical Malware Analysis
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Practical Malware Analysis

by Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig
February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
23h 55m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 9. OllyDbg

This chapter focuses on OllyDbg, an x86 debugger developed by Oleh Yuschuk. OllyDbg provides the ability to analyze malware while it is running. OllyDbg is commonly used by malware analysts and reverse engineers because it’s free, it’s easy to use, and it has many plug-ins that extend its capabilities.

OllyDbg has been around for more than a decade and has an interesting history. It was first used to crack software, even before it became popular for malware analysis. It was the primary debugger of choice for malware analysts and exploit developers, until the OllyDbg 1.1 code base was purchased by the Immunity security company and rebranded as Immunity Debugger (ImmDbg). Immunity’s goal was to gear the tool toward exploit developers ...

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