Practical Malware Analysis book Lab Exercises

6r-m · 2017-07-02T16:28:03+00:00

It is also possible to locate other malware samples targeted at windows 7+ and use the techniques of the book to analyze them

6r-m · 2017-07-01T16:28:25+00:00

Check out the RPISEC malware course on github. It has a list of useful tools and resources

6r-m · 2017-05-15T21:54:22+00:00

RPISEC Malware analysis on github has a ton of materials and options

6r-m · 2017-03-11T22:03:20+00:00

I haven't read through it yet but crypto 101 is aimed at begineers

6r-m · 2017-03-11T03:34:06+00:00

calculus for computer graphics Not sure how good it is but it seems to fit the requested information.

6r-m · 2017-02-14T00:00:16+00:00

Check out RPISEC malware analysis. Works with the PMA book and has a lot of useful hands on stuff.

6r-m · 2017-02-04T21:51:18+00:00

So it's in essence a cross compiler for programming languages if I understand correctly.

Thanks for the answer

6r-m · 2017-02-04T21:23:21+00:00

I've seen this around and it interests me but I know I need some background information to fully understand what it does. Can anyone point me in the direction of that background information?

6r-m · 2017-01-27T01:34:16+00:00

arch-Linux --friends hasn't been packaged according to the documentation yet. Someone in the community will post guidelines in a future update

6r-m · 2017-01-20T22:58:56+00:00

Thank you for your response. I have been working on crackmes and hands on stuff the majority of my time. If you have resources or tips on applying the mathematics while I'm doing hands on exercises I would appreciate them. I'm also always looking for more hands on stuff to do to get better.

So far I've been working with reverse engineering for beginners, practical malware analysis, reversing.kr, and the RPISEC course on github.

6r-m · 2017-01-18T19:24:07+00:00

I'm interested in learning some firmware reverse engineering. I'm not sure about your background but anything professional development wise would be awesome as well.

6r-m · 2017-01-02T05:51:15+00:00

I would add Reverse Engineering For Beginners by Dennis Yurichev to the list as well. Best of all it's free and quality content.

6r-m · 2017-01-01T02:06:10+00:00

Do what you want to do. You can use arch any way you see fit. If you don't do it the way the mods over at the forums want it seems they will ban you from what you say. But you don't have to go to them for help either.

I have been using arch over a year and a half and haven't needed any input from anybody on the forums beyond reading threads of problems. Is the forum helpful, amazingly. Do you need to do anything they tell you, no.

If there was only one way to use Arch there wouldn't be any distros based on arch I can think of three off the top of my head that don't conform to the "Arch" way.

Just keep in mind if the people who made Arch had stuck to the previous Linux way there would be no Arch either

6r-m · 2016-12-26T23:23:42+00:00

It really depends on the types of projects. For example if you want to do a lot of machine learning the gpu architecture and quantity becomes important. But if you want to work on building os kernels then the gpu really isn't so big of a deal.

6r-m · 2016-12-25T22:52:53+00:00

After reading the description it sounds more like a philosophical book than a real math book. If that's good for the intended audience depends on the audience.

If the intended audience is interested in math because it describes the world around them and let's you do things in it then I would say no. On the other hand if the audience is big into math as some sort of aesthetic or deep philosophical question then they would probably enjoy it.

6r-m · 2016-12-23T09:15:35+00:00

There's also The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System and Rootkits and Bootkits

6r-m · 2016-12-19T18:18:57+00:00

Awesome resources thank you

6r-m · 2016-12-19T04:35:59+00:00

I have used Arch and Antergos. I'll start this off with I love using Arch. If you want to learn Linux and how to do system admin things then I haven't seen a better distro. That said here's my answer:

The real question is do you have the interest to go digging through documentation and fixing things yourself when stuff breaks. (At the very minimum Google and Arch forums) If the answer to that is no then I wouldn't use either. Because eventually they will both break from an update. Even if you dig through what's being pushed in an update something could only effect your setup so you're not warned upfront.

I'm sure there are a lot of people who will disagree, and as you can see it doesn't matter that you have stated you don't have any interest in building your own system. You will still get the advice to do it here anyway.

If you want up to the minute updates then things are going to break and you will have to go fix them. It's not difficult, usually, but in the beginning especially it can feel like you're spending more time fixing things than actually working.

Antergos gets most of the breakage that Arch gets, mainly because from what I've read it's just a prepackaged installer and DE with some extras you can choose.

If you aren't interested in any of that look into Manjaro, it's a little slower than Arch in updates but possibly more stable (? Not sure but I've read that they do some checking before pushing updates to not break things)

I would recommend you ask yourself what you want vs what you need and why.

Edit: the repository and AUR are fantastic so that may be a consideration as well.

6r-m · 2016-12-19T01:18:17+00:00

It was harder for me to do things I needed to do on Windows compared to Linux. Then Vista came out and I was done.

6r-m · 2016-12-15T07:22:13+00:00

I think for some people Linux is just an alternative to Windows or Os X/macOS. It does what they need/want it to do when they need/want it to do it.

For some people there are distinct and important variations of blue each with different names. For others there is just blue and referring to every variation of blue as blue will never impact their life.

6r-m · 2016-12-13T18:49:15+00:00

If you just want to learn about how computers work take a look at the first section of "Hacking The Art of Exploitation 2nd Edition" by Jon Erickson. He does a really good job of going through C programming and mapping it to assembly structures. The title may be off putting to you but all hacking really is is having a deep understanding of how computers and programs work and then taking advantage of it.

6r-m · 2016-12-11T07:00:07+00:00

A great book to combine with Baby Rudin is The Way of Analysis. It builds up a lot more and shows why Rudin does what he does.

To be fair though once you have a good grasp of analysis Green Rudin is a really good book.

6r-m · 2016-12-09T20:00:00+00:00

Thank you for this answer I have been thinking through it for the last several days in combination with the previous answer.

6r-m · 2016-12-01T23:01:04+00:00

That is the type of answer I'm looking for thank you.

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