My Malware Analysis Journey

My Learning Process I’ll be documenting my journey as I learn malware analysis, sharing: Challenges I encounter and how I overcome them New techniques I discover and practice Tools I explore and my honest reviews Mistakes I make and lessons learned (because we all make them!) Hands-On Analysis This blog will feature: Step-by-step walkthroughs of malware samples Tool tutorials with practical examples Lab setup guides for safe analysis environments Real-world case studies from my analysis work Knowledge Sharing As I learn, I’ll share:...

August 20, 2025 · 1 min

Mustang Panda's ToneShell DLL static analysis

1. Sample Information Original file name: chrome.exe File type: dynamic-link-library, 32-bit, GUI File size: 1.532784 MB Hash values: MD5: 817df56f4ad3a3f6b39765e5ed95501d SHA1: 15940bb4fa5e4d9b7a940dca3a1459d4216b1dbc SHA256: 216188ee52b067f761bdf3c456634ca2e84d278c8ebf35cd4cb686d45f5aaf7b Compile Timestamp: Thu Mar 20 08:18:00 2025 Packing/Obfusction: None File Entropy Details: Sections Entropy .text 5.565 .rdata 3.910 .data 5.865 .idata 4.492 .gfids 2.945 .tls 0.011 .00cfg 0.061 .rsrc 2.239 .reloc 6.275 2. PE File Structure Sections overview: Sections Virtual Size Raw Size .text 1197979 1198080 ....

September 16, 2020 · 4 min