Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 8a
Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 8a
About the Book
This reference volume consists of revised, edited, cross-referenced, and thematically organized articles from Software Diagnostics Institute and Software Diagnostics Library (former Crash Dump Analysis blog) about software diagnostics, debugging, crash dump analysis, memory forensics, software trace and log analysis written in June 2014 - November 2014. It is fully cross-referenced with volumes 1 - 7.
Compared to the seventh volume, the volume 8a features:
- 19 new crash dump analysis patterns
- 10 new software log and trace analysis patterns
- Introduction to malnarratives and higher-order pattern narratives
- Introduction to pattern language for performance analysis
- Introduction to pattern-oriented debugging process
The primary audience for Memory Dump Analysis Anthology reference volumes (Diagnomicon) is software engineers developing and maintaining products on Windows platforms, technical support, escalation, and site reliability engineers dealing with complex software issues, quality assurance engineers testing software, security and vulnerability researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts.
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Table of Contents
Preface 7
About the Author 9
PART 1: Professional Crash Dump Analysis and Debugging 11
Software Diagnostics Professional Certification 11
Three Roads to Kernel Space 13
PART 2: Crash Dump Analysis Patterns 15
Design Value 15
Hidden IRP 16
Tampered Dump 17
Wait Chain (RTL_RESOURCE) 29
Memory Fluctuation (Process Heap) 35
Last Object 37
Rough Stack Trace 39
Past Stack Trace 43
Stack Trace (I/O Request) 46
Stack Trace (File System Filters) 48
Stack Trace (Database) 51
Wait Chain (Modules) 56
Insufficient Memory (Stack Trace Database) 57
Insufficient Memory (Region) 63
Memory Leak (Regions) 65
Invalid Handle (Managed Space) 69
Ghost Thread 77
Dry Weight 79
Exception Module 80
PART 3: Memory Forensics 83
Memory Forensics Professional Certification 83
Native Memory Forensics 84
PART 4: A Bit of Science and Philosophy 85
Memory Symmetry Breaking 85
Memoevolutionism 86
Entropy as Memory and Memory as Entropy 87
Notes on Memoidealism 88
Welcome to Memorianism 89
United Memory Lands, Memorianites, EthnOS 90
Quotes from Memoriarch 91
Pattern-Oriented Philosophy 92
PART 5: Software Trace Analysis Patterns 93
Hidden Facts 93
Back Trace 95
Blackout 97
Missing Message 99
Use Case Trail 101
Event Sequence Phase 103
Milestones 105
File Size 107
Singleton Event 108
Visitor Trace 110
PART 6: Fun with Crash Dumps 111
Debugging Slang and Proverbs 111
PUS 111
Coollect 111
Dump-out 111
LOGIC 111
DiagNose 112
Consolidation 112
No Pass a Run! 112
ID IoT Zone 112
Putty in Someone's Hands 112
DisPatched vs. DESPatched 112
Programmatica Nervosa 113
GOTCHA 113
Pan-o-RAM-ic 113
VLSI 113
Debugging Proverb 113
Space Opera 114
If Programmers Were Writers 115
My Computer Celebrates Halloween 116
Look, there’s a Bug! 117
Diagnostics in Science Fiction 118
Hard Copy Natives 119
PART 7: Software Narratology 121
Malnarratives 121
Higher-Order Pattern Narratives (Analyzing Diagnostic Analysis) 123
PART 8: Software Diagnostics, Troubleshooting, and Debugging 127
A Pattern Language for Performance Analysis 127
The Timeless Way of Diagnostics 128
Pattern-Oriented Debugging Process 130
PART 9: Art and Visualization 133
Café WoW 133
Bang Debugging 134
Bug Hunter 135
Glass of Water Dump 136
Memory Dump Analysis 137
Organic Incidents and Bad Stench 138
PART 10: Miscellaneous 139
Book Discovery 139
Quotes 140
Appendix 143
Crash Dump Analysis Checklist 143
Index of WinDbg Commands 147
Notes 149
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