From the course: Ethical Hacking: The Complete Malware Analysis Process
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Automated malware analysis
From the course: Ethical Hacking: The Complete Malware Analysis Process
Automated malware analysis
- [Instructor] Hybrid Analysis is an online capability for automating the analysis of malware. It includes both static and dynamic analysis. Let's drop a file in and see how it works. Firstly, I've got to file called CodeBodyB.bin which I'll submit. It starts by running the code against the MetaDefender and Virus Total static and antivirus tools and is reported as clean. At the top right we can see that no specific threat is found. Next, I'll submit a file called CodeBodyX.bin. This comes back and indicates that it's malicious. This time the file is reported as 10% indication of malicious code by MetaDefender. Let's look at the details. Here we see that three of the antivirus engines have diagnosed a threat. Of course in this case, there may be false positives and so static analysis may need to be supported with dynamic analysis. Hybrid Analysis uses the Falcon Sandbox analyzer to do dynamic analysis of the malware. This sandbox is a cloud based next generation antivirus solution, and…
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