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Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems
Digital Forensics Field Guides
- 1st Edition - May 11, 2012
- Authors: Cameron H. Malin, Eoghan Casey, James M. Aquilina
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 5 9 7 4 9 - 4 7 2 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 5 9 7 4 9 - 4 7 3 - 1
Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems is a handy reference that shows students the essential tools needed to do computer forensics analysis at the crime scene. It… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMalware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems is a handy reference that shows students the essential tools needed to do computer forensics analysis at the crime scene. It is part of Syngress Digital Forensics Field Guides, a series of companions for any digital and computer forensic student, investigator or analyst. Each Guide is a toolkit, with checklists for specific tasks, case studies of difficult situations, and expert analyst tips that will aid in recovering data from digital media that will be used in criminal prosecution.
This book collects data from all methods of electronic data storage and transfer devices, including computers, laptops, PDAs and the images, spreadsheets and other types of files stored on these devices. It is specific for Windows-based systems, the largest running OS in the world. The authors are world-renowned leaders in investigating and analyzing malicious code. Chapters cover malware incident response - volatile data collection and examination on a live Windows system; analysis of physical and process memory dumps for malware artifacts; post-mortem forensics - discovering and extracting malware and associated artifacts from Windows systems; legal considerations; file identification and profiling initial analysis of a suspect file on a Windows system; and analysis of a suspect program.
This field guide is intended for computer forensic investigators, analysts, and specialists.
- A condensed hand-held guide complete with on-the-job tasks and checklists
- Specific for Windows-based systems, the largest running OS in the world
- Authors are world-renowned leaders in investigating and analyzing malicious code
Computer forensic investigators, analysts, and specialists
Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
About the Technical Editor
Introduction
Chapter 1. Malware Incident Response
Solutions in this chapter:
Volatile Data Collection and Analysis Tools
Non-Volatile Data Collection and Analysis Tools
Selected Readings
Jurisprudence/RFCS/Technical Specifications
Chapter 2. Memory Forensics
Solutions in this chapter:
Selected Readings
Chapter 3. Post-Mortem Forensics
Solutions in this chapter:
Selected Readings
Chapter 4. Legal Considerations
Solutions in this chapter:
Chapter 5. File Identification and Profiling
Solutions in this chapter:
Selected Readings
Chapter 6. Analysis of a Malware Specimen
Solutions in this chapter:
Introduction
Goals
Guidelines for Examining a Malicious File Specimen
Establishing the Environment Baseline
Pre-Execution Preparation: System and Network Monitoring
Execution Artifact Capture: Digital Impression and Trace Evidence
Executing the Malicious Code Specimen
Execution Trajectory Analysis: Observing Network, Process, Api, File System, and Registry Activity
Automated Malware Analysis Frameworks
Online Malware Analysis Sandboxes
Defeating Obfuscation
Embedded Artifact Extraction Revisited
Interacting with and Manipulating the Malware Specimen: Exploring and Verifying Functionality and Purpose
Event Reconstruction and Artifact Review: Post-Run Data Analysis
Digital Virology: Advanced Profiling Through Malware Taxonomy and Phylogeny
Conclusion
Pitfalls to Avoid
Selected Readings
Index
- No. of pages: 560
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 11, 2012
- Imprint: Syngress
- Paperback ISBN: 9781597494724
- eBook ISBN: 9781597494731
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Cameron H. Malin
Cameron H. Malin is a Behavioral Profiler with over 20 years of experience investigating, analyzing and profiling cyber adversaries across the spectrum of criminal to national security. He is the founder of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit’s (BAU) Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC) and the longest serving FBI Cyber Profiler. He is a co-author of the authoritative cyber deception book, Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets Through Computer-Mediated Communications (published by Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.) and co-author of the Malware Forensics book series: Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems, and Malware Forensics Field Guide for Linux Systems (all published by Syngress, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.). Cameron is the creator of Digital Behavioral Criminalistics – a combined application of numerous forensic disciplines—digital forensics, criminalistics, and behavioral sciences—to meaningfully uncovering offender thoughts and actions in digital artifacts—as well as the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence (CPIV)—a model for assessing violent offenders who have engaged computer systems, devices, and/or online resources before, during, and/or after a premeditated, violent act. These important emerging topics were published in his book chapter Digital Behavioral Criminalistics to Elucidate the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence in the International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2021). Prior to working for the FBI, Cameron was an Assistant State Attorney (ASA) and Special Assistant United States Attorney in Miami, Florida, where he specialized in computer crime prosecutions. During his tenure as an ASA, he was also an Assistant Professorial Lecturer in the Computer Fraud Investigations Master’s Program at George Washington University.
Affiliations and expertise
Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned to Cyber Crime Squad, Los Angeles, CA, USAEC
Eoghan Casey
Eoghan Casey is an internationally recognized expert in data breach investigations and information security forensics. He is founding partner of CASEITE.com, and co-manages the Risk Prevention and Response business unit at DFLabs. Over the past decade, he has consulted with many attorneys, agencies, and police departments in the United States, South America, and Europe on a wide range of digital investigations, including fraud, violent crimes, identity theft, and on-line criminal activity. Eoghan has helped organizations investigate and manage security breaches, including network intrusions with international scope. He has delivered expert testimony in civil and criminal cases, and has submitted expert reports and prepared trial exhibits for computer forensic and cyber-crime cases.
In addition to his casework and writing the foundational book Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Eoghan has worked as R&D Team Lead in the Defense Cyber Crime Institute (DCCI) at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) helping enhance their operational capabilities and develop new techniques and tools. He also teaches graduate students at Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute and created the Mobile Device Forensics course taught worldwide through the SANS Institute. He has delivered keynotes and taught workshops around the globe on various topics related to data breach investigation, digital forensics and cyber security.
Eoghan has performed thousands of forensic acquisitions and examinations, including Windows and UNIX systems, Enterprise servers, smart phones, cell phones, network logs, backup tapes, and database systems. He also has information security experience, as an Information Security Officer at Yale University and in subsequent consulting work. He has performed vulnerability assessments, deployed and maintained intrusion detection systems, firewalls and public key infrastructures, and developed policies, procedures, and educational programs for a variety of organizations. Eoghan has authored advanced technical books in his areas of expertise that are used by practitioners and universities around the world, and he is Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's International Journal of Digital Investigation.
Affiliations and expertise
Eoghan Casey, cmdLabs, Baltimore, MD, USAJA
James M. Aquilina
James M. Aquilina, Esq. is the Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel of Stroz Friedberg, LLC, a consulting and technical services firm specializing in computer forensics; cyber-crime response; private investigations; and the preservation, analysis and production of electronic data from single hard drives to complex corporate networks. As the head of the Los Angeles Office, Mr. Aquilina supervises and conducts digital forensics and cyber-crime investigations and oversees large digital evidence projects. Mr. Aquilina also consults on the technical and strategic aspects of anti-piracy, antispyware, and digital rights management (DRM) initiatives for the media and entertainment industries, providing strategic thinking, software assurance, testing of beta products, investigative assistance, and advice on whether the technical components of the initiatives implicate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and anti-spyware and consumer fraud legislation. His deep knowledge of botnets, distributed denial of service attacks, and other automated cyber-intrusions enables him to provide companies with advice to bolster their infrastructure protection.
Affiliations and expertise
Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel of Stroz Friedberg, LLCRead Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems on ScienceDirect