What is Dynamic Malware Analysis?

 Dynamic malware analysis method is an analysis method in which malware is run and examined in secure environments. In this method, it is aimed to analyze the behavior of the malicious software by examining the activities like network, and file, etc. in secure environments.


It is a method that is widely preferred by the SOC analysts in the first place as you can perform faster analysis than the static analysis method. You can find our blog post about Static Analysis and Dynamic Analysis methods here.


Various sandbox solutions are available to automate the dynamic analysis. Sandboxes run the malware in their own isolated environments and automatically present the analysis results. These sandbox solutions are crucial for the SOC analysts.


Advantages of the Dynamic Analysis Method

Some of the advantages of the dynamic analysis method are;

It produces much faster results than the static analysis method,

You can perform automated analysis with sandboxes,

It is an analysis method that requires less technical knowledge than static analysis, so beginners can learn easily.


Disadvantages of the Dynamic Analysis Method

Some of the disadvantages of the dynamic analysis method are;

You cannot determine the full malware capacity, as the behavior of the malware may vary from different systems.

You cannot usually analyze advanced malware with the dynamic analysis method alone, in these cases you may need to use both dynamic and static analysis methods together.

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