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, Third Edition
About the Book
The full transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training course with 12 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 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 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 3rd edition was fully reworked to use WinDbg 10 and now covers memory dumps from Windows 10 x64. It includes additional examples from Microsoft Debugging Extension (MEX). 2 new exercises were added: for JavaScript WinDbg scripting and for storage and file system filters. It also includes optional legacy exercises from the previous editions covering Windows Vista.
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Table of Contents
About the Author 5
Presentation Slides and Transcript 7
Practice Exercises 13
Exercise 0: Download, setup and verify your WinDbg installation 18
Exercise C1: Stack Trace Collection (64-bit) 25
Exercise C2: Memory Search (64-bit) 66
Exercise C3: Linked Lists (64-bit) 80
Exercise C4A: WinDbg Built-in Scripting (64-bit) 133
Exercise C4B: WinDbg JavaScript Scripting (64-bit) 151
Exercise C5: Registry (64-bit) 167
Exercise C6: Module Variables (64-bit) 176
Exercise C7: System Objects (64-bit) 181
Exercise C8: Network (64-bit) 191
Exercise C9: Device Drivers (64-bit) 205
Exercise C10: Storage and File System (64-bit) 221
Exercise C11: Window Messaging (64-bit) 226
Legacy Exercises 239
Exercise Legacy.0: Download, setup and verify your WinDbg installation 241
Exercise Legacy.C1: Stack Trace Collection (64-bit) 246
Exercise Legacy.C2: Memory Search (64-bit) 271
Exercise Legacy.C3: Linked Lists (64-bit) 282
Exercise Legacy.C4: Scripting (64-bit) 311
Exercise Legacy.C5: Registry (64-bit) 328
Exercise Legacy.C6: Module Variables (64-bit) 336
Exercise Legacy.C7: System Objects (64-bit) 340
Exercise Legacy.C8: Network (64-bit) 346
Exercise Legacy.C9: Device Drivers (64-bit) 354
Selected Q&A 365
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