

Program in order to analyze its behavior 💣 After a few seconds, the programÄisappeared as shown in Figure 1. In a Windows 7 32-bit VM, I started a few tools and then executed the malicious – In Practical Malware Analysis, Chapter 3 Given that I was stuck and could not find more useful information about thisÄ®xecutable, I decided to switch to dynamic analysis 👻 Dynamic analysisÄynamic analysis is any examination performed after executing malware. Post-mortem: I might have missed something though, but at the time, that’s Program was likely decoding its instructions at runtime. Sizes looked similar and section names were not weird. I used PeView to look more into the differentĪnd did not spot any big problem (again, based on my knowledge). Using PeID, I could not find evidences of a I found some function names and a lot of garbage but Malware and I never thought that it could be a very complex and well-known In addition to that, my lack of experience made me think about a small-ish I did not payÄ®nough attention to the antivirus reports, which led to extra work to find Post-mortem: once again, I neglected the VirusTotal report.

Windows 7 VM and started a static analysis. From VirusTotal, that’s all I could gather so I decided to boot a

I thought that this malware was maybe installing/replacing a rogue certificate
