Ligh / Adair / Hartstein Malware Analyst's Cookbook and DVD

Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious Code
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-118-00336-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 752 Seiten, E-Book

A computer forensics "how-to" for fighting malicious code andanalyzing incidents
With our ever-increasing reliance on computers comes anever-growing risk of malware. Security professionals will findplenty of solutions in this book to the problems posed by viruses,Trojan horses, worms, spyware, rootkits, adware, and other invasivesoftware. Written by well-known malware experts, this guide revealssolutions to numerous problems and includes a DVD of customprograms and tools that illustrate the concepts, enhancing yourskills.
* Security professionals face a constant battle against malicioussoftware; this practical manual will improve your analyticalcapabilities and provide dozens of valuable and innovativesolutions
* Covers classifying malware, packing and unpacking, dynamicmalware 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 Perlto extend your favorite tools or build new ones, and customprograms on the DVD to demonstrate the solutions
Malware Analyst's Cookbook is indispensible to ITsecurity administrators, incident responders, forensic analysts,and malware researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ligh, Michael

Adair, Steven

Hartstein, Blake

Richard, Matthew

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Hale Ligh is a malicious code analyst at VerisigniDefense and Chief of Special Projects at MNIN Security.
Steven Adair is a member of the Shadowserver Foundationand frequently analyzes malware and tracks botnets. He alsoinvestigates cyber attacks of all kinds with an emphasis on thoselinked to cyber espionage.
Blake Hartstein is the author of multiple security toolsand a Rapid Response Engineer at Verisign iDefense, where heresponds to malware incidents.
Matthew Richard has authored numerous security tools andalso ran a managed security service for banks and creditunions.