On Friday I went to my internship. I learned that there are two types of analysis. Static and Dynamic. In static analysis we do not run the malware. We look at the strings, the dlls, the imports, exports, and functions. If the malware is packed this can be a difficult tactic to use, because most of the code is hidden from our view. There are ways to unpack malware, but I have not gotten that far in the lesson. Dynamic analysis is when you run the malware and see what it does and how it affects the machine. It is important that you do dynamic analysis in a virtual machine, so you do not harm your computer or spread the malware. In class we also "cracked" the game solitaire. We changed the program so that are any valid move, you would win the game. This was one of my favorite parts of class this week. It was fun.