Basic analysis of simple malware

  • Overview: I am working on increasing my ability to analyze malware to help discover what it does to protect my environment
  • Objective: understanding its behavior, capabilities, or indicators of compromise (IOCs) to create alerts in SIEM for future prevention of incidents.

Background

  • Malware Family: No known malware family
  • Initial Discovery: This is a test malware that was made for training purposes
  • Targets: The target audience are those that want to dive deeper into cybersecurity
  • Known Impacts: Creates a file with unknown impacts currently needs further investigation if it was real malware and not a test sample.

Static Analysis

  • File Details: