TryHackMe writeup: Dunkle Materie

A case study in using ProcDOT to investigate a ransomware attack

Since the turn of the new millennium, computer malware has become more sophisticated and is produced in a much greater volume compared to the early days of the internet. The invention of equally sophisticated anti-malware and malware analysis tools has began to counter this new generation of malware — with ProcDOT (n.d.) being one of them. In this article, I will be discussing using ProcDOT to analyse a piece of ransomware.