Practical Malware Analysis - Lab Write-Up

This details reverse engineering activities and answers for labs contained in the book ‘Practical Malware Analysis’ by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, which is published by No Starch Press.

Practical Malware Analysis - Chapter 2 Lab Write-up

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Chapter 2. Malware Analysis in Virtual Machines

This chapter had no questions, but rather documented setting up a VM for malware analysis. Broadly speaking the process to follow is below:

Create a clean snapshot without any malware.
Transfer malware to the VM.
Perform analysis from within the VM.
Take notes, screenshots, and data from the VM, and move these back to your Host OS.
Revert the VM back to the clean snapshot.

This concludes chapter 2, proceed to the next chapter.