Generating Malware Hashes

Malware Hashing

Malware hashing is the process of generating cryptographic hashes for the file content of the target malware. We are hashing the malware file.

The hashing algorithms used in malware identification are:

The hashing process gives us a unique digest known as a fingerprint.

This means we can create unique fingerprints for malware samples.

For accurate identification of malware samples, rather than using file names for malware. Hashes are unique.

Hashes are used to identify malware on malware analysis sites (Virus Total).

Hashes can be used to search for any previous detections or for checking online if the sample has been analyzed by other researchers.

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