I wanted to know how malware works, so I built an analyser

I wanted to know how malware works, so I built an analyser

1. Introduction & Motivation When I began thinking about what to do for my Master’s thesis, one question kept resurfacing: How do people actually classify malware? I had always been curious about the internal logic behind malware categorization, not just at a high level, but at the level of processes, features, and decision-making. In the end, the thesis became more of a means to an end: a structured excuse to finally build something I’d wanted …