When performing dynamic analysis, you will be executing the malware specimen, so you need to have a safe and secure lab environment to prevent your production system from being infected. To demonstrate the concepts, I will be using the isolated lab environment that was configured in Chapter 1, Introduction to Malware Analysis. The following diagram shows the lab environment that will be used to perform dynamic analysis and the same lab architecture is used throughout the book:
In this setup, both the Linux and Windows VM were configured to use the host-only network configuration mode. The Linux VM was preconfigured ...
