Malware Analyst's Cookbook and DVD: Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious Code [Hardcover]

With our ever-increasing reliance on computers comes an ever-growing risk of malware. Security professionals will find plenty of solutions in this book to the problems posed by viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, rootkits, adware, and other invasive software. Written by well-known malware experts, this guide reveals solutions to numerous problems and includes a DVD of custom programs and tools that illustrate the concepts, enhancing your skills.

• Security professionals face a constant battle against malicious software; this practical manual will improve your analytical capabilities and provide dozens of valuable and innovative solutions
• Covers classifying malware, packing and unpacking, dynamic malware analysis, decoding and decrypting, rootkit detection, memory forensics, open source malware research, and much more
• Includes generous amounts of source code in C, Python, and Perl to extend your favorite tools or build new ones, and custom programs on the DVD to demonstrate the solutions

Malware Analyst's Cookbook is indispensible to IT security administrators, incident responders, forensic analysts, and malware researchers.

Introduction xv

On The Books DVD xxiii

1 Anonymizing Your Activities 1

Recipe 1-1: Anonymous Web Browsing with Tor 3

Recipe 1-2: Wrapping Wget and Network Clients with Torsocks 5

Recipe 1-3: Multi-platform Tor-enabled Downloader in Python 7

Recipe 1-4: Forwarding Traffic through Open Proxies 12

Recipe 1-5: Using SSH Tunnels to Proxy Connections 16

Recipe 1-6: Privacy-enhanced Web browsing with Privoxy 18

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