Practical Malware Analysis

What’s in the Book?

Practical Malware Analysis begins with easy methods that can be used to get information from relatively unsophisticated malicious programs, and proceeds with increasingly complicated techniques that can be used to tackle even the most sophisticated malicious programs. Here’s what you’ll find in each chapter:

• Chapter 0, establishes the overall process and methodology of analyzing malware.

• Chapter 1, teaches ways to get information from an executable without running it.

• Chapter 2, walks you through setting up virtual machines to use as a safe environment for running malware.

• Chapter 3, teaches easy-to-use but effective techniques for analyzing a malicious program by running it.

• Chapter 4, “A Crash Course in x86 Assembly,” is an introduction ...