Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis, Fifth Edition, Part 1, Revision 2, Process User Space
Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis, Fifth Edition, Part 1, Revision 2, Process User Space
Training Course Transcript and WinDbg Practice Exercises with Notes
About the Book
This book is a full-color transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training sessions with 20 step-by-step exercises, notes, source code of specially created modeling applications, and more than 60 questions and answers. Covers more than 50 crash dump analysis patterns from x86 and x64 process memory dumps. Learn how to analyze application and service crashes and freezes, navigate through process user space and diagnose heap corruption, memory and handle leaks, CPU spikes, blocked threads, deadlocks, wait chains, and many more patterns of abnormal software behavior with WinDbg debugger. The training uses a unique and innovative pattern-oriented analysis approach developed by Software Diagnostics Institute to speed up the learning curve. Prerequisites: Basic Windows troubleshooting. Audience: Software technical support and escalation engineers, system administrators, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts, software developers and quality assurance engineers, site reliability engineers. The 5th edition was fully reworked with new memory dumps, additional slides, exercises, and analysis patterns. It was further revised with some exercises updated to Windows 11, expanded Q&A, and an optional Docker image. The current revision 5.6 uses WinDbg Preview for all exercise transcripts.
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Table of Contents
About the Author 5
Presentation Slides and Transcript 7
Practice Exercises 33
Exercise 0: Download, setup, and verify your WinDbg Preview or WinDbg installation, or Docker image 38
Exercise P1: Analysis of a normal application process dump (64-bit notepad) 55
Exercise P2: Analysis of a normal application process dump (32-bit notepad) 65
Exercise P3: Analysis of a normal application process dump (64-bit Microsoft Edge) 67
Exercise P4: Analysis of an application process dump (64-bit AppK, no symbols) 91
Exercise P5: Analysis of an application process dump (64-bit AppK, with application symbols) 101
Exercise P6: Analysis of an application process dump (AppL, 64-bit) 106
Exercise P7: Analysis of an application process dump (AppL2, 64-bit) 115
Exercise P8: Analysis of an application process dump (AppM, 64-bit) 129
Exercise P9: Analysis of an application process dump (AppN, 64-bit) 139
Exercise P10: Analysis of an application process dump (AppO, 64-bit) 149
Exercise P11: Analysis of an application process dump (AppP, 64-bit) 158
Exercise P12: Analysis of an application process dump (AppR2, 64-bit) 170
Exercise P13: Analysis of an application process dump (AppA, WOW64) 189
Exercise P14: Analysis of an application process dump (AppS, 64-bit) 208
Exercise P15: Analysis of an application process dump (notepad, 32-bit) 230
Exercise P16: Analysis of an application process dump (notepad, 64-bit) 235
Exercise P17: Analysis of an application process dump (AppQ, 32-bit) 243
Exercise P18: Analysis of an application process dump (AppQ, 64-bit) 255
Exercise P19: Analysis of an application process dump (AppT, 64-bit) 265
Exercise P20: Analysis of a service process dump (ServiceA, 64-bit) 280
Application Source Code 289
AppA 291
AppK 293
AppL 294
AppL2 295
AppM 296
AppN 297
AppO 298
AppP 300
AppR2 301
AppS 302
AppQ 304
AppT 308
ServiceA 310
Selected Q&A 313
Triple Dereference 349
Large Heap Allocations 352
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