This research focuses on analysis malware using static method in operating system environment. Thus, we focus on malware analysis that uses Anti-Virtualisation avoidance technique. Although our platform environment exposed to the threat by malware sample, we protect this environment by using Toolwiz TimeFreeze and window backup image to protect and secure our environment. This research proved that our environment capable to do malware analysis and compare our environment with the virtual machine environment to prove that our analysis more accurate. | International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications Security C , , DECEMBER 2013, 324–328 Available online at: ISSN 2308-9830 N C S Manual Malware Analysis Using Static Method NORKHUSHAINI AWANG1, ARIFIN SALLEH2 and MOHAMAD YUSOF DARUS3 1, 2, 3 Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Malaysia. E-mail: 1shaini@, 2arifin@, 3yusof@ ABSTRACT Today malware threats represent the greatest challenge to information security. Combat between malware writer and malware researcher never end. Malware writers use a variety of avoidance techniques such as Code Obfuscation, Packing, Anti-Debugging and Anti-Virtualisation Technologies to foil researcher’s analysis. On behalf of researchers they try to find out many techniques to defend Information Technology (IT) services from access or stolen by unauthorized parties. Most of the researches perform malware analysis in Virtualisation Technology in the isolation environment because of security issues. This research focuses on analysis malware using static method in operating system environment. Thus, we focus on malware analysis that uses Anti-Virtualisation avoidance technique. Although our platform environment exposed to the threat by malware sample, we protect this environment by using Toolwiz TimeFreeze and window backup image to protect and secure our environment. This research proved that our environment capable to do malware analysis and compare our environment with the virtual machine environment to prove that our analysis more accurate. Keywords: Malware, Security, Threats, Static Analysis, Dynamic Analysis, Operating System. 1 INTRODUCTION Now day malware threats were assessed by IT security organizations has been growing more than ten thousand every day. Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (2011) reveals that the total number unique variants of malware in the world in 2011 around 403 million .
