Practical Malware Analysis (Introductory)
Hi folks, just started the series on PMA (Practical Malware Analysis) . Being an analyst i would recommend to gain expertise on "Malware Analysis". This blog help us to quick recap the concepts of malware as well as from analysis perspective. We'll start from basic and proceed towards advance level. Introduction: Malware refers to "Malicious Binary" which is instructive by the threat actors (called as "Hackers" ) to achieve their motives. Motives can be vary like it could be data stealing, damage/destroy organization systems. Viruses Worms Trojan Spyware Adware Ransomware Aforementioned names are the malware types which is collectively called "Malware". Let's jump into the main topic of this blog without going into the details. Malware Analysis: Malware analysis is the process of understanding the working flow/behavior/malicious activity of malware. The results of the malware analysis help the analysts to detect and prevent the threats.