Windows Malware Analysis Essentials

Breathing in the ephemeral realm

Ideally, how you approach malware analysis from the perspective of disassembly code is largely dependent on your required objectives. While complete code coverage is certainly possible to a good degree, it is not always practical; hence, you have make a judgment call after you reach a point of diminishing returns, wherein exhausting the available resources will not yield a significant value any further. I believe that the three tenets of successful malware analysis include pattern recognition, the process of elimination, and cross-checking the available information. Concisely, it is a problem solving mindset with solid coding skills. Deciphering dead listings or raw disassembly text without executing the binary ...