Advanced Malware Analysis

CHAPTER8

Dynamic Analysis Lab

 

Setting up the static analysis lab gave you a good foundation that you can build on when setting up a dynamic analysis lab. Dealing with Windows errors during installation and anonymizing and isolating the lab are among the topics that will help you to set up a dynamic analysis lab.

Using a static analysis lab offers you a glimpse of the nature of malware from the data gathered with the malware at rest. Although the data might not be enough to come up with any definite information to fully determine a malware’s behavior or directive, static analysis is still a useful first step in the malware analysis process. The next step that builds upon static analysis is dynamic analysis. With dynamic analysis, you are able ...