Accelerated Windows Memory Dump Analysis, Sixth Edition, Part 1, Process User Space

Training Course Transcript and WinDbg Practice Exercises with Notes

Learn how to analyze application and service crashes and freezes, navigate through process user space, and diagnose heap corruption, memory and handle leaks, CPU spikes, blocked threads, deadlocks, wait chains, and much more using WinDbg debugger. The course covers more than 50 crash dump analysis patterns from x86 and x64 process memory dumps.

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This book is a full-color transcript of Software Diagnostics Services training sessions with 22 step-by-step exercises, notes, source code of specially created modeling applications, and more than 70 questions and answers. Covers more than 50 crash dump analysis patterns from x86 and x64 process memory dumps. Learn how to analyze application and service crashes and freezes, navigate through process user space, and diagnose heap corruption, memory and handle leaks, CPU spikes, blocked threads, deadlocks, wait chains, and many more patterns of abnormal software behavior with WinDbg debugger. The training uses a unique and innovative pattern-oriented analysis approach developed by Software Diagnostics Institute to speed up the learning curve. Prerequisites: Basic Windows troubleshooting. Audience: Software technical support and escalation engineers, system administrators, security researchers, reverse engineers, malware and memory forensics analysts, software developers and quality assurance engineers, and site reliability engineers. The 6th edition was fully reworked for the latest WinDbg version and includes additional Windows 11 memory dumps, relevant x64 assembly language review, and a Rust memory dump analysis example.

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Dmitry Vostokov is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, educator, scientist, inventor, and author. He founded the pattern-oriented software diagnostics, forensics, and prognostics discipline (Systematic Software Diagnostics) and Software Diagnostics Institute. Vostokov has also authored over 50 books on software diagnostics, anomaly detection and analysis, software and memory forensics, root cause analysis and problem solving, memory dump analysis, debugging, software trace and log analysis, reverse engineering, and malware analysis. He has over 30 years of experience in software architecture, design, development, and maintenance in various industries, including leadership, technical, and people management roles. Dmitry founded OpenTask Iterative and Incremental Publishing and Software Diagnostics Technology and Services (former Memory Dump Analysis Services). In his spare time, he explores Software Narratology and Quantum Software Diagnostics. His interest areas are theoretical software diagnostics and its mathematical and computer science foundations, application of formal logic, semiotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining to diagnostics and anomaly detection, software diagnostics engineering and diagnostics-driven development, diagnostics workflow and interaction. Recent interest areas also include functional programming, cloud native computing, monitoring, observability, visualization, security, automation, applications of category theory to software diagnostics, development and big data, and diagnostics of artificial intelligence.

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Table of Contents

About the Author 5

Presentation Slides and Transcript 7

Review of x64 Disassembly 35

Practice Exercises 47

Exercise 0: Download, set up, and verify your WinDbg or Debugging Tools for Windows installation, or Docker Debugging Tools for Windows image 52

Exercise P1: Analysis of a normal application process dump (64-bit wordpad) 66

Exercise P2: Analysis of a normal application process dump (32-bit wordpad) 77

Exercise P3: Analysis of a normal application process dump (64-bit Microsoft Edge) 80

Exercise P4: Analysis of an application process dump (64-bit AppK, no symbols) 91

Exercise P5: Analysis of an application process dump (64-bit AppK, with application symbols) 101

Exercise P6: Analysis of an application process dump (AppL, 64-bit) 106

Exercise P7: Analysis of an application process dump (AppL2, 64-bit) 116

Exercise P8: Analysis of an application process dump (AppM, 64-bit) 130

Exercise P9: Analysis of an application process dump (AppN, 64-bit) 140

Exercise P10: Analysis of an application process dump (AppO, 64-bit) 150

Exercise P11: Analysis of an application process dump (AppP, 64-bit) 159

Exercise P12: Analysis of an application process dump (AppR2, 64-bit) 171

Exercise P13: Analysis of an application process dump (AppA, WOW64) 185

Exercise P14: Analysis of an application process dump (AppS, 64-bit) 204

Exercise P15: Analysis of an application process dump (notepad, 32-bit) 224

Exercise P16: Analysis of an application process dump (notepad, 64-bit) 229

Exercise P17: Analysis of an application process dump (AppQ, 32-bit) 237

Exercise P18: Analysis of an application process dump (AppQ, 64-bit) 249

Exercise P19: Analysis of an application process dump (AppT, 64-bit) 259

Exercise P20: Analysis of a service process dump (ServiceA, 64-bit) 274

Exercise P21: Analysis of a Rust process dump (Rusty, 64-bit) 277

Application Source Code 287

AppA 289

AppK 291

AppL 292

AppL2 293

AppM 294

AppN 295

AppO 296

AppP 298

AppR2 299

AppS 300

AppQ 302

AppT 306

ServiceA 308

Rusty 311

Selected Q&A 313

Triple Dereference 349

Large Heap Allocations 352

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