Malware Analysis
Reverse-engineer malware to understand its behaviour and impact.
What this assessment covers.
When malware is discovered in your environment, understanding what it does is critical to containing the threat and preventing recurrence. DERISK’s Malware Analysis service provides in-depth reverse engineering and behavioural analysis of malicious software to understand its capabilities, persistence mechanisms, and impact.
Our analysts use both static and dynamic analysis techniques — examining code, examining behaviour in isolated environments, and extracting indicators of compromise — to build a complete picture of what the malware does, how it communicates, and what it targets.
The intelligence from our analysis feeds directly into incident response, threat hunting, and defensive improvements, helping your organisation detect, block, and respond to similar threats in the future.
How we test.
A structured, expert-led methodology from initial reconnaissance through to real-time reporting and remediation guidance.
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Sample Triage & Initial Assessment
We perform an initial assessment of the malware sample to determine its type, format, and observable characteristics, and establish the appropriate analysis approach and safety precautions.
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Static Analysis
We examine the malware without executing it — analysing code structure, strings, imports, and embedded resources — to identify capabilities, obfuscation techniques, and indicators of compromise.
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Dynamic Analysis
We execute the malware in a controlled, isolated environment and monitor its behaviour — file system changes, network communications, registry modifications, and process activity — to understand what it does in practice.
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Capability & Impact Assessment
We determine the malware’s full capabilities — data theft, persistence, lateral movement, command-and-control communication — and assess its potential impact on your environment.
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Indicators of Compromise & Detection Guidance
We extract indicators of compromise — file hashes, network indicators, behavioural signatures — and provide detection guidance so your team can hunt for similar threats across your environment.
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Professional Report Delivery
All analysis findings, indicators of compromise, and detection guidance are compiled and delivered in a comprehensive professional PDF report for your team to action.
Why teams choose us.
Expert-led, manually validated, and delivered through the DERISK PTaaS platform for continuous visibility and rapid remediation.
Outstanding Features
- ✓Both static and dynamic malware analysis for comprehensive coverage
- ✓Capability assessment to understand exactly what the malware can do
- ✓Indicators of compromise extraction for threat hunting and detection
- ✓Detection guidance to help your team identify similar threats in the future
Why Choose Our Service?
- ▸Understand the threat: Know exactly what the malware does, how it persists, and what it targets
- ▸Support incident response: Malware intelligence feeds directly into containment and eradication efforts
- ▸Threat hunting: Indicators of compromise enable your team to search for similar threats across your estate
- ▸Defensive improvement: Detection guidance helps strengthen your defences against future attacks
Frameworks & standards.
Testing is aligned with industry-recognised frameworks and standards to ensure comprehensive, repeatable coverage.
What you receive.
Everything you need to understand, prioritise, and remediate findings — delivered through the platform with ongoing validation.
Malware Analysis questions.
What do you determine from a malware sample?
What the sample does, how it persists, what it communicates with, what data it targets, and whether it has already achieved its objective — plus the indicators of compromise needed to find every other affected host.
How do we safely submit a sample?
Do not email the raw file. Contact us first and we will provide a secure transfer method and handling instructions appropriate to the sample.
Do you perform static and dynamic analysis?
Both. Static analysis examines the binary without running it; dynamic analysis detonates it in an isolated environment to observe real behaviour. Together they defeat most evasion and packing techniques.
How does this fit with incident response?
Analysis output feeds containment directly: the indicators of compromise tell you which other systems to check, and the persistence mechanisms tell you what eradication actually requires.
Often scoped together.
Incident Response
Rapid, expert-led response to contain and recover from security incidents.
Digital Forensics
Forensic investigation and analysis of digital evidence.
Source Code Review
Catch vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle.
Security Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organisation’s security posture.
Ready to secure your assets with Malware Analysis?
Get in touch with DERISK to schedule an assessment or learn more about how our expert-led testing can strengthen your security posture.
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