Computer Forensics Investigation – A Case Study

Computer technology is the major integral part of everyday human life, and it is growing rapidly, as are computer crimes such as financial fraud, unauthorized intrusion, identity theft and intellectual theft. To counteract those computer-related crimes, Computer Forensics plays a very important role. “Computer Forensics involves obtaining and analysing digital information for use as evidence in civil, criminal or administrative cases (Nelson, B., et al., 2008)”. A Computer Forensic Investigation generally investigates the data which could be taken from computer hard disks or any other storage devices with adherence to standard policies and procedures to determine if those devices have been compromised by unauthorised access or not. Computer Forensics Investigators work as a team to investigate the incident and conduct the forensic analysis by using various methodologies (e.g. Static and Dynamic) and tools (e.g. ProDiscover or Encase) to ensure the computer network system is secure in an organization.

Dissecting Malware – Static Analysis of Malware

This article will be showing you how doing static malware analysis. Which are the processes involved within a static analysis. Static malware analysis is the first essential step taken by the malware analysts or reverse engineers working under forensics department.

Static Malware Analysis

Best and childish way to analyze malware is to scan it with multiple antivirus services. There are ton of antivirus available in the world, so your malware will surely be identified by at least any of them from the world. What exactly antivirus does that, they have the thousands of malicious file signatures and patterns within themselves. So they scan malware and if the file pattern gets matched with their database, it gets detected.