Computer Viruses: Malware Analysis

Malware Analysis

Dynamic analysis and static analysis are two approaches to analyzing malware on a comprised system once it has been discovered after a computer related incident. Dynamic analysis consist of examining the inputs and outputs produced by the malware, its interaction on the system as to what files are being read or written to and what effects it is applying to the system . The examiner concern is not with the internals of the malware, but the malware's functionality and behavior. Whereas static analysis being the more difficult of the two analysis approaches consists of extracting and reviewing readable data located in the malware binary and converting machine language to readable source code for analysis. Unlike the dynamic analysis approach which usually requires execution of the malware, the static analysis approach does not making it a safer approach, but much more exhausting process.