Behavioral Analysis

ProcMon (Process Monitor)

Tool ProcMon (Process Monitor)
URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
Cost Free
Target Windows
Description - an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time activity for
- file system
- Registry
- process/thread activity
-adds an extensive list of enhancements
-rich and non-destructive filtering
-comprehensive event properties such session IDs and user names
-reliable process information
-full thread stacks with integrated symbol support for each operation
- simultaneous logging to a file
- and much more.
useful for - analyzing which processes are running
- file access
- registry access
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Wireshark

Tool Wireshark
URL https://www.wireshark.org/
Cost Free
Target no specific OS - general network analyzer
Description - Analyze and display network capture files
- adaptive filtering possibilities
- understands a lot of network protocols (HTTP, SMB, Modbus, ...)
- huge community to improve to software
useful for
- analyze network traffic
- generate statistics (top talkers, conversations, used protocols, ...)
- detailed analysis of TCP/UDP Streams and packetse
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NetworkMiner

Tool Networkminer
URL NetworkMiner - The NSM and Network Forensics Analysis Tool ⛏
Cost Free, commercial Pro version available
Target no specific OS - general network analyzer
Description - Analyze and display network capture files
- Extract data
- hosts, OS fingerprinting
- files (images, html files, ...)
- DNS queries and responses
- SSL Certificate information (Subject, Issuer, Serial, ...)
useful for - analyze network traffic
- extract data from streams (files, images, video streams, ...)
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ProcessHacker

Tool ProcessHacker
URL GitHub - winsiderss/systeminformer: A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ http://www.windows-internals.com
Cost Free
Target Windows
Description - A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.
useful for - monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware
- Access memory regions of fileless malware
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FakeNet

Tool FakeNet
URL GitHub - mandiant/flare-fakenet-ng: [Suspended] FakeNet-NG - Next Generation Dynamic Network Analysis Tool
Cost Free
Target Windows and Linux
Description - A next generation dynamic network analysis tool for malware analysts and penetration testers
useful for - Fake Internet connection to allow malware to execute outbound connections
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Process Explorer

Tool Process Explorer
URL Process Explorer - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs
Cost Free
Target Windows
Description - show details about currently running processes
- accessed files or directoy
- which handles or DLLs are opened or loaded
useful for - analyzing which processes are running
- which DLLs are loaded
- which files are accessed by a running process
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RegShot

Tool RegShot
URL regshot download | SourceForge.net
Cost Free
Target Windows
Description - create snapshots of the registry
- compare them to previous snapshots
useful for - analyzing changes in the registry between two different points in time
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FakeDNS

Tool FakeDNS
URL GitHub - pathes/fakedns: Fake DNS server written in python 3
Cost Free
Target
https://www.aldeid.com/wiki/PEiD - python daemon to fake a DNS server
useful for - fake a DNS server to analyze which DNS requests a running malware is sending
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API Monitor

Tool API Monitor
URL API Monitor: Spy on API Calls and COM Interfaces (Freeware 32-bit and 64-bit Versions!) | rohitab.com
Cost Free
Target Windows
Description - monitor and control API calls made by applications and services
useful for - monitoring API calls made by applications and services
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Capture BAT

Tool Capture BAT
URL Capture BAT – The Honeynet Project
Cost Free
Target Windows
Description - monitor the state of a system during the execution of applications and processing of documents
- monitors state changes on a low kernel level and can easily be used across various Win32 operating system versions and configurations
- provides a powerful mechanism to exclude event noise that naturally occurs on an idle system or when using a specific application
useful for - analyzing what happens on a system when applications are running
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Tool SSDEEP
URL https://ssdeep-project.github.io/ssdeep/index.html
Target Windows
Cost Free
Description ssdeep is a program for computing context triggered piecewise hashes (CTPH). Also called fuzzy hashes, CTPH can match inputs that have homologies. Such inputs have sequences of identical bytes in the same order, although bytes in between these sequences may be different in both content and length.
useful for fuzzy hashing
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