Dynamic analysis

Dynamic analysis is a broader concept that refers to analyzing a program while it is running to understand its behavior, security properties, or runtime characteristics. Main goal: Understand how a program behaves dynamically, without necessarily focusing only on fixing bugs.

It includes:

• Debugging (todo link page later date) (stepping, breakpoints)
• Tracing function calls and syscalls
• Instrumentation (todo link page later date) (injecting hooks or modifying runtime behavior using tools like Frida or DTrace)
• Profiling performance (CPU usage, memory allocation, execution time)
• Monitoring resource usage (network calls, file access)
• Detecting vulns (e.g. buffer overflows, use-after-free) under execution conditions