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Introductory Malware Analysis

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This chapter serves as an introduction into malware analysis. This chapter discusses the different types of malware and describes how malware infects computers. Also, it introduces you to practical approaches of analyzing malware through three case examples so as to provide insight into different ways how malware works. The objectives of this chapter are to:

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Lin, X. (2018). Introductory Malware Analysis. In: Introductory Computer Forensics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00581-8_18

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