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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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Labs

Lab 20-1

The purpose of this first lab is to demonstrate the usage of the this pointer. Analyze the malware in Lab20-01.exe.

Questions

Q:

1. Does the function at 0x401040 take any parameters?

Q:

2. Which URL is used in the call to URLDownloadToFile?

Q:

3. What does this program do?

Lab 20-2

The purpose of this second lab is to demonstrate virtual functions. Analyze the malware in Lab20-02.exe.

Note

This program is not dangerous to your computer, but it will try to upload possibly sensitive files from your machine.

Questions

Q:

1. What can you learn from the interesting strings in this program?

Q:

2. What do the imports tell you about this program?

Q:

3. What is the purpose of the object created at 0x4011D9? Does it have any virtual ...

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