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Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
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Malware analysis is big business, and attacks can cost a company dearly. When malware breaches your defenses, you need to act quickly to cure current infections and prevent future ones from occurring.
For those who want to stay ahead of the latest malware, Practical Malware Analysis will teach you the tools and techniques used by professional analysts. With this book as your guide, you'll be able to safely analyze, debug, and disassemble any malicious software that comes your way.
You'll learn how to:
–Set up a safe virtual environment to analyze malware
–Quickly extract network signatures and host-based indicators
–Use key analysis tools like IDA Pro, OllyDbg, and WinDbg
–Overcome malware tricks like obfuscation, anti-disassembly, anti-debugging, and anti-virtual machine techniques
–Use your newfound knowledge of Windows internals for malware analysis
–Develop a methodology for unpacking malware and get practical experience with five of the most popular packers
–Analyze special cases of malware with shellcode, C++, and 64-bit code
Hands-on labs throughout the book challenge you to practice and synthesize your skills as you dissect real malware samples, and pages of detailed dissections offer an over-the-shoulder look at how the pros do it. You'll learn how to crack open malware to see how it really works, determine what damage it has done, thoroughly clean your network, and ensure that the malware never comes back.
Malware analysis is a cat-and-mouse game with rules that are constantly changing, so make sure you have the fundamentals. Whether you're tasked with securing one network or a thousand networks, or you're making a living as a malware analyst, you'll find what you need to succeed in Practical Malware Analysis.
- ISBN-101593272901
- ISBN-13978-1593272906
- Edition1st
- PublisherNo Starch Press
- Publication date3 Mar. 2012
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions18.1 x 4 x 23.5 cm
- Print length800 pages
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Andrew Honig is an Information Assurance Expert for the Department of Defense. He teaches courses on software analysis, reverse engineering, and Windows system programming. Andy is publicly credited with several zero-day exploits in VMware's virtualization products.
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- Publisher : No Starch Press
- Publication date : 3 Mar. 2012
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 800 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1593272901
- ISBN-13 : 978-1593272906
- Item weight : 1.32 kg
- Dimensions : 18.1 x 4 x 23.5 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 369,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 395 in Computer Information Systems
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Awesome!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 December 2022Just get it! It is a big book. Loads of stuff, but well writen and very helpful
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Excellent introduction to malware analysis
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 August 2013Currently working my way through this book. It progresses at a good pace and explains a complex subject well. The authors clearly have a wealth of practical experience in this area and this comes through in the explanations, examples and labs. If you're looking to get into malware analysis, this is probably the best book out there at the moment (Malware Analysts Cookbook is also great).
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Essential Malware Analysis Guide
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 November 2015This book is an essential if you work in the computer security field and are required to understand and examine Malware. Students studying Malware Analysis should consider this as a must read. The book is very comprehensive and is very well laid out.
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Very nice book full of details
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2017Very nice book full of details. The only drawback is that a book like this becomes outdated in few weeks due to technical advancement in the field. Recommended.
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I have reverse engineered several zero-day malware specimens with the ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2017I have reverse engineered several zero-day malware specimens with the help of this book. I am now excited whenever unsolicited email arrives in my inbox!
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Excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 May 2017This book is amazing, i read a lot of books but this one is the best who read this he understands everything.
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Don't hesitate
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2015This book is amazing. It is the first book you will need to get into malware analysis, and one of the books you will always need to have handy. Simply a must-have.
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This is a big stumbling block for budding malware researchers like me, hoping to develop those skills
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 January 2018A very well structured book, guiding the reader through the various steps of malware analysis. However, and this is a big problem, it is old. It recommends Windows XP as the operating system of choice for a malware analysis machine and a lot of the software is either no longer available, does not run on Windows 7 (a compromise between XP and Windows 10) or is now only available commercially. This is a big stumbling block for budding malware researchers like me, hoping to develop those skills. I got up to Chapter 3 and stopped, thoroughly disheartened. The authors (who did a fantastic job with this book some 7-8 years ago) really need to update it. This version will unfortunately languish in my Kindle repository, mostly unread.
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Nieryk Niekochanek5 out of 5 starsŚwietne dla początkujących
Reviewed in Poland on 1 January 2026Super ciekawa i informatywna. Niestety dużo nieaktualnych informacji już w 1 rozdziale ale to nic
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AmazonCustomer5 out of 5 starsA must book for all Malware and Security Researchers
Reviewed in India on 25 November 2017The best book that I have ever read, every topic has a complete coverage of what one should know about the Malware. The best book that every Malware Research should have. I have no words to express my thanks to the authors. A thousand dollar course for few dollar. It worth more than what you pay.
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flerb5 out of 5 starsExcellent book
Reviewed in Canada on 18 December 2016This is a very well-done book. The downloadable content and extensive labs at the end of each chapter are entertaining and give the hands-on opportunity to make the information tangible and useful. It's a 766 page book and around 250 pages are comprehensive walk-through solutions to the labs.
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Alex5 out of 5 starsTop livre à avoir
Reviewed in France on 11 February 2022Le meilleur livre pour commencer à apprendre le reverse, les malware, tout ce qui est bas niveau
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Aniello Verde2 out of 5 starsQuestionable advertisememt
Reviewed in the Netherlands on 8 March 2026Not very useful as all labs are now inacessible including the mirrors on github. Definitely the publisher which keeps advertising the book should provide better information beyond the marketing and indicate that you have no actual access to practical content.
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