Malware Analysis and Investigation

What is malware analysis and why does it matter?

Every attack leaves a trail which can be correlated with forensic indicators: behaviours, file modifications and registry changes. Malware Protection Plus goes beyond basic scanning by performing deep analysis to uncover a threat’s origin, execution logic, and full impact across your environment. This forensic insight transforms isolated incidents into actionable intelligence, enabling faster response, informed remediation, and long-term threat resilience.

Types of malware scanning mechanisms

Advanced memory scanning

Unlike conventional malware, fileless malware hides in memory to evade detection. Malware Protection Plus performs a deep process inspection to uncover injected code, shellcode execution, and DLL loading. It can perform runtime behaviour analysis to unravel threats residing in memory.

On-Demand scanning

Manually verify system integrity of high value assets with full system scans across disks, boot sectors, and firmware.

On-Write scanning

Traditional AV scans files after they’re written. Malware Protection Plus intercepts them during creation. Prevent malware from ever executing by scanning files the moment they’re written to disk.

Malware scanning and investigation  

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Malware Protection Plus offers process trees and timeline reconstruction of attacks, allowing a way to visualize attack path to expose underlying attack forensics detailing initial access, propagation and impact.

MITRE ATT&CK mapping

Classify threats using MITRE ATT&CK framework, exposing attacker TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), enabling proactive threat mapping and countermeasure deployment.

Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) Analysis

Identify malicious fingerprints, including File hashes of known malware variants, Registry keys and filenames tied to attacks.

Malware analysis using Malware protection plus

Malware Protection Plus delivers comprehensive malware analysis by going beyond detection to uncover the origin, behaviour, and execution flow of threats in real time.

Malware threat intelligence

The above image reveals a high-severity malware detection, flagged as a true positive. Key malware analysis details include:

This information aids rapid investigation, IOC extraction, and secure cross-referencing with threat intelligence feeds.

Process tree analysis

The above image shows the full parent-child process tree, a key component in advanced malware analysis and forensics. Malware Protection Plus reconstructs the entire execution flow leading to the malicious event:

This visualization enables security teams to identify tactics and techniques, isolate affected endpoints, and prevent recurrence. This can be further validated using VirusTotal for additional layer of context and scrutiny.