What is Malware Analysis?

Malware analysis is the method of knowing the behaviour and meaning of a questionable file or URL.

The results of the malware analysis further help in the discovery and mitigation of the potential threat. It enables a deeper understanding of the malware working process and its real purpose.

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Static Malware Analysis

The fundamental static analysis does not expect that the code is running. However, the static analysis reviews the file for indications of malicious intention. It is beneficial to distinguish malicious infrastructure, libraries or compressed files.

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Dynamic Malware Analysis

Dynamic malware assessment performs speculated malicious code in a contained environment called a sandbox. It enables malware analysts to view the malware in motion without the risk of making it infect their system or disappear into the company's network.

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Hybrid Malware Analysis

While the fundamental static analysis isn’t a sure-fire way to discover the complex malicious program, and high-level malware can seldom cover from the appearance of sandbox technology. By consolidating fundamental and dynamic analysis tactics, hybrid assessment present malware security experts with the best of both strategies.

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Fully Interactive Malware Analysis

The behavioural analysis enables us to observe and interact with a malware sample operating in the contained environment. Malware Analysts endeavour to know the sample’s registry, file system, process and network activities. They may also direct memory forensics to ascertain how malware manages memory.

Types of Malware Analysis

We perform the malware analysis in static, dynamic or a hybrid of the both.

Static malware Analysis

Dynamic Malware Analysis

Hybrid Malware Analysis

Fully Interactive Malware Analysis

Malware Analysis is mission critical for businesses of any size.

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Static Malware Analysis

Technical details are known, such as file names, hashes, embedded strings such as IP addresses, domains, and file header data to ascertain whether that file is ill-disposed. Besides, tools like disassemblers and network analysers aid to discern the malware without indeed running it to gather data on how the malware operates.

However, considering static analysis does not run the code, advanced malware may comprise malicious runtime behaviour evading the controls.

Dynamic Malware Analysis

The dynamic analysis contributes to threat hunters and incident responders with more great clarity, enabling them to reveal the exact characteristics of a threat. Automated sandboxing reduces the time it would need to reverse engineer a file to detect the malicious code.

The challenge with dynamic analysis is that cyber attackers are intelligent, and they know sandboxes are out there, so they have become very qualified at identifying them. Malware droppers hide code inside them that may remain dormant until certain conditions fulfil it before running the malicious code – one of the way to deceive a sandbox.

Threat Alerts and Triage

Malware analysis answers provide higher-fidelity alarms first in the attack life cycle. It saves significant time for security engineers.

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Hybrid Malware Analysis

Initially, distinguish malicious code that is striving to cover, and then can extract numerous indicators of compromise (IOCs) by statically and previously undiscovered code. The hybrid review benefits detect unknown threats.

It reveals Zero-day exploits as the malware analysis is iterative in approach and comprises of many malware analyst strategies.

Incident Response

The intent of the incident response (IR) team is to present root cause analysis, prepare the impact and benefit in remediation and restoration. The malware analysis method aids competence and effectiveness.

Malware Research

Educational or Information Security industry malware researchers perform malware analysis to achieve an understanding of the latest techniques, exploits and means used by adversaries.

Threat Hunting

Malware analysis can reveal behaviour and artefacts that threat hunters to find a similar activity, such as the path to a particular network link, port or domain. By exploring UTM and proxy logs or SOAR data, teams leverage to find related threats.

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Static Properties Analysis

Static resources include strings enclosed in the malware code, header details, hashes, metadata, embedded resources, so on and so forth is enough to create IOCs. And it can be taken very quickly as there is no need to compile and run the program. Acumens gathered during the static properties analysis can indicate whether a more in-depth investigation using more comprehensive techniques is necessary and determine the next step of actions.

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Interactive Behavior Analysis

Fully Automated Analysis

Fully automated analysis quickly and swiftly assesses unusual files. The assessment can discover potential consequences if the malware were to infiltrate the network and then create an easy-to-read report that presents quick answers for security teams. Fully automated analysis is the most suitable way to process malware at scale.

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Manual Code Reversing

Malware analysts reverse-engineer code utilising debuggers, disassemblers, compilers and functional apps to decode encrypted data, ascertain the logic following the malware algorithm and discover any concealed abilities that the malware has not yet shown. Code reversing is a very precious art, and performing code reversals takes a significant amount of time. Malware examinations often hop this step and consequently blow out on a lot of valuable insights into the nature of the malware.

Purpose and benefits

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Know why Malware Analysis is crucial for your businesses to enable and revalidate your cyber resilience.

Purpose

The purpose of Malware Analysis

Malware Analysis reveals some of the fantastic things which further aids in building cyber resilience.

What is the goal of Malware?
How did it receive into your organisation?
Who is targeting you, and how backed are they?
How to remove the Malware and build cyber resilience?
What are they trying to steal?
What did they rob?

Benefits

The critical benefit of malware assessment is that it helps incident responders and security analysts:

Pragmatically triage security incidents by the level of criticality
Reveal obscure indicators of compromise (IoCs).
Proactively block the found indicators of compromise (IoCs)
Enhance the effectiveness of IoC alarms and warnings
Adorn context when threat hunting

Why choose OM?

A dedicated, certified malware analysis friendly team with decades of practice and experience delivers the highest degree of work.
We focus on the Manual Malware Analysis over automated testing to avoid false positives.
We hearten you high-quality assessment on-time.