MALWARE DETECTION AND ANALYSIS

Every electronic device may it be a mobile phone or a computer, they are always on the brink of getting violated in terms of privacy and data breach. Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT) around the globe have fresh prepared reports each day regarding a new type of malicious attack they tackled. For instance, on 21st December, 2021, a school in Florida, USA was data breached and all the sensitive information of 50000 students and staff members were in the intruder’s hold until the ransom was paid. Another recent attack includes a Ransomware attack on Nvidia by threatening them into open-sourcing their GPU drivers on 3rd March, 2022. The latest news also points out the Micro backdoor malware being confirmed by CERT- Ukraine on 7th March, 2022. It had phishing emails like “dovidka. zip” and malicious code as well which was written in VBScript and saved in the file named “file. htm”. These statistics proves that everyday there is some cyber-crime committed on a massive scale. The need for the solutions to tackle these problems is of immense importance for the organizations. These attacks that compromise the network or the data of a system of an individual or an organization are called Cyber Attacks and one of those attacks is coined as ‘Malware’. A malware is a code that is malicious. There are numerous kinds of attacks that fall under the heading ‘malware’, for example- trojans, backdoors, droppers, ransomwares etc. The kind of work CERT- UA did on Micro backdoor Malware by confirming its existence is a process known as ‘Malware Detection’ and the way the malicious code and phishing emails were analyzed as to know how bad it could have been if it had got executed on the system is called ‘Malware Analysis’. Having an Emergency Response Team or Cyber Incident Response Team readily available is crucial during the time of crisis to nullify or significantly reduce the impact of the malicious code entering into the system or into the network.