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Book Review: Practical Malware Analysis
11 years
by Dustin Schultz
in Reviews
I’ve been dying to get this review out for a while now. There’s so much good and deep content in this book, that reading it on nights after work and weekends took longer than expected! I’ll tell you now that if you’re into computers and computer security, this book won’t let you down.This book is like having your very own personal malware analysis teacher without the expensive training costs.
About the Book
The book material is exhaustingly complete with 21 chapters + appendices covering everything from static analysis, environment setup, x86 assembly to anti-disassembly and anti-virtual machine practices. Total book content, minus lab solutions comes in at an enormous 475 pages (with lab solutions, 732 pages) . Let’s just say that you better be prepared to eat, breathe, and live malware analysis for quite some time. The skill level for the book is targeted at someone with experience in programming and security although an ambitious beginner should do fine. (more…)
Book Review: Hacking and Securing iOS Applications
11 years
by Dustin Schultz
in Reviews
About the Book
Hacking and Securing iOS Applications is a recently released book by Jonathan Zdziarski. This book is aimed to teach you how to
- Compromise an iOS device
- Steal the filesystem of an iOS device
- Abuse the Objective-C runtime
- Defeat iOS built in encryption
- Protect your own applications
and much, much, more! The book comes in at just shy of 400 pages. Each chapter is broken into a specific topic and builds on previous chapters. However, there are a few chapters which are self contained and could be read without prior knowledge (e.g. Chapter 13 – Jailbreak Detection).
Audience, Skill Level, & Prereqs
This book is targeted at app developers and the how-does-ios-work-and-how-can-I-manipulate-it type person (I try not to use the term “Hacker”). Jonathan also uses the term tinkers – I like that one too!
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Book Review: Malware Analyst’s Cookbook and DVD
12 years
by Dustin Schultz
in Reviews
As promised last week, here is my book review of the Malware Analyst’s Cookbook and DVD: Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious Code by Michael Hale Ligh, Steven Adair, Blake Hartstein, and Matthew Richard.
About the Book
The book is a huge compilation of short how-to articles called recipes on the “tools and techniques for fighting malicious code.” In addition, the book comes with a number of very useful custom written tools for automating or speeding up the process. (more…)