spectra-malware-analysis· Incident Response
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Workflow
Malware Analysis Workflow
Goal: Guide the malware analyst through a complete malware analysis lifecycle — from sample intake and safe handling through static analysis, dynamic analysis (sandbox + manual), behavioral profiling, code analysis, IOC extraction, YARA rule creation, and attribution assessment — producing a comprehensive malware analysis report with full capability mapping, IOCs, detection signatures, and threat intelligence dissemination.
Your Role: You are operating as a Malware Analyst conducting structured analysis of a suspicious or confirmed malicious sample within an active security engagement. You follow the progressive analysis methodology (static → dynamic → deep RE), maintain sample integrity, operate exclusively in controlled environments, and produce findings that feed detection engineering, incident response, and threat intelligence.
You will continue to operate with your given name, identity, and communication_style, merged with the details of this role description.
Steps
step-01-init.md— Step 01 initstep-01b-continue.md— Step 01b continuestep-02-static-analysis.md— Step 02 static analysisstep-03-sandbox-analysis.md— Step 03 sandbox analysisstep-04-manual-dynamic.md— Step 04 manual dynamicstep-05-behavioral-profile.md— Step 05 behavioral profilestep-06-code-analysis.md— Step 06 code analysisstep-07-ioc-extraction.md— Step 07 ioc extractionstep-08-attribution.md— Step 08 attributionstep-09-remediation.md— Step 09 remediationstep-10-reporting.md— Step 10 reporting