blog post about malware analysis

config.toml

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-base_url = "https://anemone.pages.dev"
+base_url = "https://notes.joostagterhoek.nl"
-title = "anemone"
+title = "My statically generated test website"
-description = "A minimalist Zola theme that prioritizes clean CSS and avoids heavy JavaScript. Enjoy a seamless user experience with lightning-fast load times. Let your content take center stage in a clutter-free, elegant design that enhances readability. Responsive and efficient, anemone brings focus to your ideas."
+description = "This is a test website built with Zola. Here I want to try to build a more easy to manage and 'quiet' homepage for my blog, possibly a journal and definitely current programming, scripting and automation projects. Goals are easy access to the content (preferably direct file access), integration with Git and Obsidian and ease of use."
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 minify_html = true
 generate_feeds = true
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 internal_level = "warn"
 
 [extra]
-author = "Speyll"
+author = "Joost Agterhoek"
 display_author = true
 
 favicon = "favicon.ico"
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 # Optional footer license text. It will only show, when using footer_content_license.
 #footer_content_license = "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"
 #footer_content_license_link = "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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content/_index.md

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 ## Overview
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+This is a test website built with Zola. Here I want to try to build a more easy to manage and 'quiet' homepage for my blog, possibly a journal and definitely current programming, scripting and automation projects. Goals are easy access to the content (preferably direct file access), integration with Git and Obsidian and ease of use.
-anemone theme is designed to provide a nearly no-JavaScript, efficient, and minimalist experience for your website. Embracing simplicity, the theme focuses on content and readability, ensuring a seamless user experience without unnecessary distractions.
 
 > *"Useless blockquote"*
 
 ## Blog Posts
 
-Explore our insightful blog posts on a variety of topics:
+Here are some highlighted blog posts, check out all my posts [here](./blog/):
 
 - 🔥 [testing](./blog/testing)
 

content/blog/2024-08-28-practical-malware-analysis.md

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+title = "I want to learn malware analysis (again)"
+[taxonomies]
+  tags = ['malware analysis']
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+
+The heading says it all: I *really* want to learn malware analysis. Ever since I finalized the [Practical Malware Analysis & Triage](https://academy.tcm-sec.com/p/practical-malware-analysis-triage) course by [TCM Security](https://academy.tcm-sec.com/), I was hooked. I 💚loved💚 the entire course, especially diving deep into binaries, (trying) reverse engineering, debugging. I went through all the material, did the labs and wrote up a report, a (very shallow) static and dynamic analysis of a WannaCry-sample. I found my niche (or so I thought...)
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+## Rabbit holes
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+One thing that bothered me throughout the course, was the lack of direction and stable ground when investigating and debugging binaries. I found myself stuck reverse engineering functions that were not user written code (C runtime for example). I got close to a particularly interesting part, stepping into and over functions, all to ultimately never reach that goal of finding a specific return value or determining a critical execution flow junction. So I thought to myself: what's the best way to learn how programs work, and flip them inside out? By building them myself! With that motivation, I dove deep back into Python 🐍, thinking, this will be a good starting ground to hop over to C 🖥️ later. But...I think I got stuck at the first step! 🛑 Over the last year, I got really hooked on programming. Some of the stuff I (partially) made:
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