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.

Lets develop a source code from executable : Reverse engineering approach

Why mobile security is important ?

Now a days world is becoming tiny with the latest inventions in gadgets. Hardwares are becoming smaller and smaller and their efficiency and usability is increasing rapidly.

There is a drastic growth in mobile application development in past 3 years.

Average 500% people are using mobiles for day 2 day transaction. From all those people 60% of people are not installing anti virus in their phone and 50% of mobile users jailbreak their phones. Number of chances are very high that mobile applications can be used in a wrong manner to harm other people.