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3. Basic Dynamic Analysis

notes on Process Explorer

services: pink processes: blue new processes: green terminated processes: red

when the DLL information display window is active, you can click a process to see all DLLs it loaded into memory. You can change the DLL display window to the Handles window, which shows all handles held by the process, including file handles, mutexes, events, and so on.

One way to recognize process replacement is to use the Strings tab in the Process Properties window to compare the strings contained in the disk executable (image) against the strings in memory for that same executable running in memory. You can toggle between these string views using the buttons at the bottom-left corner

notes on Dependency Walker