Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis, Seventh Edition, Part 2, Kernel and Complete Spaces

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Learn how to analyze system crashes and freezes, navigate through the kernel and complete spaces, and diagnose patterns of abnormal software behavior using the WinDbg debugger. The course covers more than 50 crash dump analysis patterns from kernel and complete (physical) memory dumps on x64 and ARM64 platforms.

Dmitry Vostokov

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The full-color transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training sessions with 15 step-by-step exercises, notes, source code of specially created modeling applications, and 45 questions and answers. Covers more than 50 crash dump analysis patterns from the x64 and ARM64 kernel and complete (physical) memory dumps. Learn how to analyze system crashes and freezes, navigate through the kernel and complete spaces, and diagnose patterns of abnormal software behavior with the WinDbg debugger. The training uses a unique, innovative pattern-oriented analysis approach developed by Software Diagnostics Institute to accelerate learning. 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, and site reliability engineers. The 7th edition was fully reworked for the latest WinDbg version and includes memory dump setup and collection methods, an additional ARM64 memory dump analysis exercise, and a relevant review of x64 and ARM64 assembly languages.

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Dmitry Vostokov

Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, educator, scientist, inventor, and author. He founded the pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics) and Software Diagnostics Institute. Vostokov has also authored over 50 books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. He has over 30 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in various industries, including leadership, technical, and people management roles. Dmitry founded OpenTask Iterative and Incremental Publishing and Software Diagnostics Technology and Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services). In his spare time, he explores Software Narratology and Quantum Software Diagnostics. His interest areas are theoretical software diagnostics and its mathematical and computer science foundations, application of formal logic, semiotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining to diagnostics and anomaly detection, software diagnostics engineering and diagnostics-driven development, diagnostics workflow and interaction. Recent interest areas also include functional programming, cloud native computing, monitoring, observability, visualization, security, automation, applications of category theory to software diagnostics, development and big data, and diagnostics of artificial intelligence.

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Table of Contents

About the Author 7

Introduction 8

What’s New 9

Prerequisites 10

Training Goals 11

Training Principles 12

Coverage (Part 2) 13

Fundamentals 14

Process Space (x64, ARM64) 15

Application/Process/Module 16

OS Kernel/Driver/Module 17

Process Virtual Space (x64, ARM64) 18

Process Virtual Space (WOW64) 19

Kernel Memory Dump (x64, A64) 20

Complete Memory Dump 21

Process Threads 22

System Threads 23

Thread Stack Raw Data 24

Thread Stack Trace 25

Thread Stack Trace (no PDB) 26

Exceptions (Access Violation) 27

Bugchecks (Runtime) 29

Pattern-Oriented Diagnostic Analysis 30

Review of x64 Disassembly 31

x64 CPU Registers 32

x64 Instructions and Registers 33

x64 Stack Addressing 34

x64 Memory Cell Sizes 35

x64 Memory Load Instructions 36

x64 Memory Store Instructions 37

x64 Flow Instructions 38

x64 Windows API Parameters 39

Review of ARM64 Disassembly 40

A64 CPU Registers 41

A64 Instructions and Registers 42

A64 Stack Addressing 43

A64 Memory Load Instructions 44

A64 Memory Store Instructions 45

A64 Flow Instructions 46

A64 Windows API Parameters 47

Practical Exercises 48

Links 49

Exercise 0 50

Kernel Memory Dumps 57

Types of WinDbg Command 58

Exercise K1 59

Exercise K2 118

Exercise K3 136

Exercise K4 143

Exercise K5 163

Exercise K6 183

Exercise K7 206

Exercise K8 216

BSOD Analysis Pattern Strategy 221

Pattern Links 223

Additional Pattern Links 226

Complete Memory Dump 227

Memory Spaces 228

Major Challenges 229

Common Commands 230

View Commands 231

Switch Commands 232

Most Frequent Commands 233

Exercise C1 234

Exercise C2 254

Exercise C3 290

Wait Chain 303

Exercise C4 304

Exercise C5 330

Exercise C6 336

Pattern Links 350

Common Mistakes 353

Windows Internals 354

Collection Methods 356

Kernel/Complete Dump Setup 357

Complete Dump Generation 358

Fiber Bundle Memory Dump 359

Kernel Minidumps 360

Pattern Classification 361

Pattern Case Studies 362

Additional Resources 363

Further Training Courses 365

Application Source Code 367

AppA 367

AppB 369

AppC 371

AppE 373

AppK 375

ServiceA 376

Selected Q&A 379

Added in Version 5.5 379

From Earlier Versions 381

Minidump Analysis 405

Scripts and WinDbg Commands 405

Component Identification 408

Raw Stack Data Analysis 414

Symbols and Images 423

Wait Chain (Executive Resources) 427

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