What is a Incident Response and Malware Analysis?

Incident Response and Malware Analysis will assist you gauge the influence of cyber breaches. An investigation is necessary, and a containment and recovery technique needs to be carried out by experts.
Any corporation that is uncovered to an incident, faces a dent to their brand popularity and additionally any felony liability.

Applicability

The analysis may be conducted in a manner that is static, dynamic.

Static Analysis:
Basic static analysis does not require that the code is actually run. Instead, static analysis examines the file for signs of malicious intent. It can be useful to identify malicious infrastructure, libraries or packed files.
Technical indicators are identified such as file names, hashes, strings such as IP addresses, domains, and file header data can be used to determine whether that file is malicious. In addition, tools like disassemblers and network analyzers can be used to observe the malware without actually running it in order to collect information on how the malware works.

Dynamic Analysis:
Dynamic malware analysis executes suspected malicious code in a safe environment called a sandbox. This closed system enables security professionals to watch the malware in action without the risk of letting it infect their system or escape into the enterprise network.
Dynamic analysis provides threat hunters and incident responders with deeper visibility, allowing them to uncover the true nature of a threat. As a secondary benefit, automated sandboxing eliminates the time it would take to reverse engineer a file to discover the malicious code.
The challenge with dynamic analysis is that adversaries are smart, and they know sandboxes are out there, so they have become very good at detecting them. To deceive a sandbox, adversaries hide code inside them that may remain dormant until certain conditions are met. Only then does the code run.

Objective

When a cyber-attack happens in your organization, an expert dealing with it is the need of the hour. Precious time takes the side bench when you rely on in-house techniques to recover from the incident. A professional is required to handle and mitigate the problem without causing further harm to your organizations’ data.

What is Malware Analysis?

Malware analysis is the process of understanding the behavior and purpose of a suspicious file or URL. The output of the analysis aids in the detection and mitigation of the potential threat.
The key benefit of malware analysis is that it helps incident responders and security analysts:

  • Pragmatically triage incidents by level of severity
  • Uncover hidden indicators of compromise (IOCs) that should be blocked
  • Improve the efficacy of IOC alerts and notifications
  • Enrich context when threat hunting

Approach

  • Address business vulnerability and assign roles and responsibility
  • Identify relevant business departments and get them involved
  • Identify Key Performance Indicators(KPIs) to measure the event
  • Testing of the plan
  • Review the plan constantly
  • Determine incident
  • Team formation and lead by IR analyst
  • Right tools implementation
  • Establishment of communication strategy

Countermeasures Of Malware

After a lot of Malware Analysis different approaches, we follow for Malware Defence

  • Firewall System
  • Web filtering system
  • Intrusion/Prevention Detection System (IPS/IDS)
  • Host-based Intrusion Prevention System(HIPS)
  • Any many more……..

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