Learning Malware Analysis: Explore the concepts, tools, and techniques to analyze and investigate Windows malware

by Monnappa K A

Understand malware analysis and its practical implementation Malware analysis and memory forensics are powerful analysis and investigation techniques used in reverse engineering, digital forensics, and incident response. With adversaries becoming sophisticated and carrying out advanced malware attacks on critical infrastructures, data centers, and private and public organizations, detecting, responding to, and investigating such intrusions is critical to information security professionals. Malware analysis and memory forensics have become must-have skills to fight advanced malware, targeted attacks, and security breaches. This book teaches you the concepts, techniques, and tools to understand the behavior and characteristics of malware through malware analysis. It also teaches you techniques to investigate and hunt malware using memory forensics. This book introduces you to the basics of malware analysis, and then gradually progresses into the more advanced concepts of code analysis and memory forensics. It uses real-world malware samples, infected memory images, and visual diagrams to help you gain a better understanding of the subject and to equip you with the skills required to analyze, investigate, and respond to malware-related incidents. This book is for incident responders, cyber-security investigators, system administrators, malware analyst, forensic practitioners, student, or curious security professionals interested in learning malware analysis and memory forensics. Knowledge of programming languages such as C and Python is helpful but is not mandatory. If you have written few lines of code and have a basic understanding of programming concepts, you'll be able to get the most out of this book.

Genres: Technical, Hackers, Technology

510 pages, Paperback

Published June 29, 2018

Reviews

[Irena · Rating 4 out of 5]

great for beginners. There is a reason I get this book for every new employee :)

[Billy Tibbs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good overview

Goes for breadth on the subject and does a good job hitting on a lot of examples. This makes it easy to read and follow along. Definitely recommend for beginners or those with gaps that want to solidify their foundation.

[Carter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is okay but illustrates certain things in too much detail when in reality some documentation and an explanation of basic concepts paired with experimenting with the tool would serve this function better IMHO. Adequate.