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Conclusion

You should now have a basic understanding of two important aspects of malware analysis, static and
dynamic and an overview of two powerful and free tools that will help you efficiently understand the
behavior of unknown and suspicious files you may encounter. There are a huge amount of resources
available to further your knowledge in this field. “Practical Malware Analysis” by Michael Sikorski and
Andrew Honig is an excellent place to start learning about additional techniques and tools. “Malware
Analyst’s Cookbook” by Ligh, Adair, Hartstein and Richard is another highly recommended text to help
you create more a more sophisticated malware analysis lab. If you do encounter malicious samples be
sure to share them with your antivirus vendor to help protect other users. Malicious files can be
uploaded to Lavasoft’s Malware Lab at: http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/file_upload.php.

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