Advanced Windows Memory Dump Analysis with Data Structures
Advanced Windows Memory Dump Analysis with Data Structures
Training Course Transcript and WinDbg Practice Exercises with Notes, Fifth Edition
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The full transcript of the Software Diagnostics Services training course with 16 step-by-step exercises, notes, and selected questions and answers. Learn how to navigate through memory dump space and Windows data structures to diagnose, troubleshoot, and debug complex software incidents. The training uses a unique and innovative pattern-oriented analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. It consists of practical step-by-step exercises using WinDbg to diagnose structural and behavioral patterns in the 64-bit kernel and complete (physical) memory dumps. Additional topics include memory search, kernel linked list navigation, practical WinDbg scripting, registry, system variables and objects, device drivers, and I/O. Prerequisites are basic and intermediate level Windows memory dump analysis: the ability to list processors, processes, threads, modules, apply symbols, walk through stack traces and raw stack data, diagnose patterns such as heap corruption, CPU spike, memory leaks, access violation, wait chains and deadlocks. If you don't feel comfortable with prerequisites, then the Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis training book is recommended before purchasing and reading this book course. Audience: Software technical support and escalation engineers, system administrators, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts, software developers, and quality assurance engineers. The fifth edition uses the latest WinDbg, includes the relevant Unified Modeling Language tutorial, revised and extended existing exercises, and added the exercise that demonstrates the use of a Generative AI LLM assistant.
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Table of Contents
About the Author 5
Presentation Slides and Transcript 7
Practice Exercises 13
Exercise 0: Download, set up, and verify your WinDbg or Debugging Tools for Windows installation, or Docker Debugging Tools for Windows image 18
Exercise C1A: Stack Trace Collection 31
Exercise C1B: WOW64 Stack Trace Reconstruction 77
Exercise C2: Memory Search 102
A Crash Dump Course in Unified Modeling Language, Part I 119
Exercise C3A: Linked Lists 131
Exercise C3B: Linked Lists, Additional Example 179
Exercise C4A: WinDbg Built-in Scripting 194
Exercise C4B: WinDbg JavaScript Scripting 210
Exercise C5: Registry 230
Exercise C6: Module Variables 238
Exercise C7: System Objects 243
Exercise C8: Network 252
A Crash Dump Course in Unified Modeling Language, Part II 257
A Crash Dump Course in Windows Internals 262
Exercise C9: Device Drivers 270
Exercise C10: Storage and File System 287
Exercise C11: Window Messaging 293
Exercise C12: Past Behavior 301
Exercise C13: Generative AI LLM Assistant 308
Selected Q&A 331
Two WinDbg Scripts That Changed the World 339
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