Mastering Malware Analysis - Second Edition: A malware analyst's practical guide to combating malicious software, APT, cybercrime, and IoT attacks

Learn effective malware analysis tactics to prevent your systems from getting infected

Key Features:

• Investigate cyberattacks and prevent malware-related incidents from occurring in the future
• Learn core concepts of static and dynamic malware analysis, memory forensics, decryption, and much more
• Get practical guidance in developing efficient solutions to handle malware incidents

Book Description:

New and developing technologies inevitably bring new types of malware with them, creating a huge demand for IT professionals that can keep malware at bay. With the help of this updated second edition of Mastering Malware Analysis, you'll be able to add valuable reverse-engineering skills to your CV and learn how to protect organizations in the most efficient way.

This book will familiarize you with multiple universal patterns behind different malicious software types and teach you how to analyze them using a variety of approaches.

You'll learn how to examine malware code and determine the damage it can possibly cause to systems, along with ensuring that the right prevention or remediation steps are followed. As you cover all aspects of malware analysis for Windows, Linux, macOS, and mobile platforms in detail, you'll also get to grips with obfuscation, anti-debugging, and other advanced anti-reverse-engineering techniques. The skills you acquire in this cybersecurity book will help you deal with all types of modern malware, strengthen your defenses, and prevent or promptly mitigate breaches regardless of the platforms involved.

By the end of this book, you will have learned how to efficiently analyze samples, investigate suspicious activity, and build innovative solutions to handle malware incidents.

What You Will Learn:

• Explore assembly languages to strengthen your reverse-engineering skills
• Master various file formats and relevant APIs used by attackers
• Discover attack vectors and start handling IT, OT, and IoT malware
• Understand how to analyze samples for x86 and various RISC architectures
• Perform static and dynamic analysis of files of various types
• Get to grips with handling sophisticated malware cases
• Understand real advanced attacks, covering all their stages
• Focus on how to bypass anti-reverse-engineering techniques

Who this book is for:

If you are a malware researcher, forensic analyst, IT security administrator, or anyone looking to secure against malicious software or investigate malicious code, this book is for you. This new edition is suited to all levels of knowledge, including complete beginners. Any prior exposure to programming or cybersecurity will further help to speed up your learning process.

學習有效的惡意軟體分析策略，以防止系統感染

主要特點：
- 調查網絡攻擊並預防未來的惡意軟體事件
- 學習靜態和動態惡意軟體分析、記憶體取證、解密等核心概念
- 提供實用指南，開發處理惡意軟體事件的有效解決方案

書籍描述：
新興和發展中的技術必然帶來新型惡意軟體，這就需要能夠有效防範惡意軟體的IT專業人員。通過這本更新的第二版《精通惡意軟體分析》，您將能夠在您的履歷中增加寶貴的逆向工程技能，並學習如何以最有效的方式保護組織。

本書將使您熟悉不同惡意軟體類型背後的多個通用模式，並教您如何使用各種方法進行分析。

您將學習如何檢查惡意軟體代碼，並確定它可能對系統造成的損害，同時確保遵循正確的預防或修復步驟。隨著您詳細研究Windows、Linux、macOS和移動平台的所有惡意軟體分析方面，您還將掌握混淆、反調試和其他高級反向工程技術。您在這本網絡安全書籍中獲得的技能將幫助您應對各種現代惡意軟體，加強您的防禦能力，無論涉及哪些平台，都能預防或迅速緩解違規行為。

通過閱讀本書，您將學習如何高效地分析樣本，調查可疑活動，並建立創新解決方案來處理惡意軟體事件。

您將學到的內容：
- 探索組合語言以增強您的逆向工程技能
- 掌握攻擊者使用的各種文件格式和相關API
- 發現攻擊向量，開始處理IT、OT和IoT惡意軟體
- 瞭解如何分析x86和各種RISC架構的樣本
- 執行各種類型文件的靜態和動態分析
- 掌握處理複雜惡意軟體案例的能力
- 瞭解真實的高級攻擊，涵蓋所有階段
- 重點關注如何繞過反逆向工程技術

本書適合對象：
如果您是惡意軟體研究人員、法醫分析師、IT安全管理員或任何希望防範惡意軟體或調查惡意代碼的人，本書適合您。本書適合各種知識水平，包括完全初學者。對編程或網絡安全有任何先備知識都將有助於加快您的學習過程。