How Malware is Researched – Part 2
There are lots of useful ways of looking at a file to determine whether it’s malware, and if it is, what it’s trying to do. Some of those ways involve dissecting the file on disk for clues to a file’s structure (static analysis), and some of those ways involve watching the file in action (dynamically) [...]
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