Practical Malware Analysis

Michael Sikorski works at Mandiant as a malware analyst, researcher, and security consultant. Previously, he worked for the National Security Agency and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Mike teaches malware research to a wide range of groups, including the FBI and Black Hat.

Andrew Honig works for the Department of Defense as an Information Assurance Expert. He teaches software analysis, reverse engineering, and Windows system programming classes. Andy has publicly claimed responsibility for many zero-day attacks in VMware's virtualization solutions.

Malware analysis is major industry, and attacks may be quite expensive. When malware breaks your defenses, you must act promptly to cure existing infections and prevent future attacks.

Practical Malware Analysis will teach you the tools and tactics used by expert analysts to keep ahead of the latest malware. You'll be able to securely analyze, debug, and disassemble any malicious software that comes your way with this book as your guide.

You'll learn how to:

• Create a secure virtual environment for malware analysis
• Extract network signatures and host-based indicators quickly
• Utilize important analysis tools like as IDA Pro, OllyDbg, and WinDbg.
• Overcome malware tactics such as obfuscation, anti-disassembly, anti-debugging, and anti-virtual machine
• Apply your newly acquired knowledge of Windows internals to malware investigation
• Develop a malware unpacking methodology and gain hands-on experience with five of the most popular packers
• Analyze malware specific instances using shellcode, C++, and 64-bit code.

Practical labs Throughout the book, you'll be challenged to practice and synthesize your abilities as you dissect real malware samples, and pages of thorough dissections will show you how the pros do it. You'll learn how to disassemble malware to examine how it works, assess the harm it has caused, properly clean your network, and ensure that the malware never returns.

Malware analysis is a cat-and-mouse game with continuously shifting rules, so be sure you understand the fundamentals. Whether you're responsible with securing one network or a thousand networks, or you make a living as a malware analyst, Practical Malware Analysis has what you need to succeed.

Author: Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Malware-Analysis-Hands-Dissecting/dp/1593272901/

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