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Malware can be analyzed both with and without execution. Static analysis is the analysis of a sample without executing it, as opposed to executing it and analyzing its behavior, which is known as dynamic analysis. While static analysis of a sample might look like a wholly separate and independent phase in the analysis process, it is not! Analyzing a malware sample and its various artifacts is a constant back and forth motion between static and dynamic analysis. In this chapter, we introduce the steps and various tools and tricks that one can use to statically analyze a sample.
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Mohanta, A., Saldanha, A. (2020). Static Analysis. In: Malware Analysis and Detection Engineering. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6193-4_12
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