Accelerated Windows Malware Analysis with Memory Dumps
Accelerated Windows Malware Analysis with Memory Dumps
Training Course Transcript and WinDbg Practice Exercises, Third Edition
About the Book
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training. Learn how to navigate process, kernel, and physical spaces and diagnose various malware patterns in Windows memory dump files. The course uses a unique and innovative pattern-oriented analysis approach to speed up the learning curve. The training consists of practical step-by-step, hands-on exercises using WinDbg, process, kernel, and complete memory dumps. The training covers more than 20 malware analysis patterns. The main audience is software technical support and escalation engineers who analyze memory dumps from complex software environments and need to check for possible malware presence in cases of abnormal software behavior. The course will also be useful for software engineers, quality assurance and software maintenance engineers, security researchers, malware and memory forensics analysts who have never used WinDbg for analysis of computer memory. The third edition uses the latest WinDbg Preview version with some exercises updated to Windows 11 and is optionally containerized.
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Table of Contents
About the Author 5
Introduction 7
Practice Exercises 17
Exercise 0: Download, setup, and verify your WinDbg Preview or WinDbg installation, or Docker Debugging Tools for Windows image 22
Exercise M1A 38
Exercise M1B 49
Exercise M2 64
Exercise M3 81
Exercise M4 133
Exercise M5 187
Exercise M6 211
Selected Q&A 243
Appendix 247
Malware Analysis Patterns 249
Deviant Module 249
Deviant Token 256
Driver Device Collection 257
Execution Residue 258
Fake Module 282
Hidden Module 286
Hidden Process 288
Hooksware 290
Namespace 291
No Component Symbols 292
Out-of-Module Pointer 295
Packed Code 296
Patched Code 299
Pre-Obfuscation Residue 300
Raw Pointer 301
RIP Stack Trace 302
Self-Diagnosis (Kernel Mode) 304
Stack Trace Collection 305
Stack Trace Collection (I/O Requests) 313
String Hint 317
Unknown Module 319
Raw Stack Dump of All Threads (Kernel Space) 322
Complete Stack Traces from x64 System 323
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