Windows Malware Analysis Essentials: Master the fundamentals of malware analysis for the Windows platform and enhance your anti-malware skill set

Windows Malware Analysis Essentials: Master the fundamentals of malware analysis for the Windows platform and enhance your anti-malware skill set Victor Marak
Windows OS is the most used operating system in the world and hence is targeted by malware writers. There are strong ramifications if things go awry. Things will go wrong if they can, and hence we see a salvo of attacks that have continued to disrupt the normal scheme of things in our day to day lives. This book will guide you on how to use essential tools such as debuggers, disassemblers, and sandboxes to dissect malware samples. It will expose your innards and then build a report of their indicators of compromise along with detection rule sets that will enable you to help contain the outbreak when faced with such a situation. We will start with the basics of computing fundamentals such as number systems and Boolean algebra. Further, you’ll learn about x86 assembly programming and its integration with high level languages such as C++.You’ll understand how to decipher disassembly code obtained from the compiled source code and map it back to its original design goals. Categories:
Computers – Operating Systems
Year:
2015
Publisher:
Packt Publishing
Language:
english
Pages:
330
ISBN 10:
1785281518
ISBN 13:
9781785281518
File:
20.60 MB