hacktricks/forensics/malware-analysis.md

Malware Analysis

Forensics CheatSheets

https://www.jaiminton.com/cheatsheet/DFIR/#

Online Services

• VirusTotal
• HybridAnalysis
• Koodous
• Intezer

Offline antivirus

• Windows Defender
• Avast Antivirus or any other antivirus

Update the Antivirus, disconnect from internet the PC and scan the file.

PEpper

PEpper checks some basic stuff inside the executable (binary data, entropy, URLs and IPs, some yara rules

Yara

Install

sudo apt-get install -y yara

Prepare rules

Use this script to download and merge all the yara malware rules from github: https://gist.github.com/andreafortuna/29c6ea48adf3d45a979a78763cdc7ce9
Create the rules directory and execute it. This will create a file called malware_rules.yar which contains all the yara rules for malware.

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/andreafortuna/29c6ea48adf3d45a979a78763cdc7ce9/raw/4ec711d37f1b428b63bed1f786b26a0654aa2f31/malware_yara_rules.py
mkdir rules
python malware_yara_rules.py

Scan

yara -w malware_rules.yar image  #Scan 1 file
yara -w malware_rules.yar folder #Scan hole fodler

ClamAV

Install

sudo apt-get install -y clamav

Scan

sudo freshclam      #Update rules
clamscan filepath   #Scan 1 file
clamscan folderpath #Scan the hole folder