Michael Ligh & Steven Adair 
Malware Analyst’s Cookbook and DVD 
Tools and Techniques for Fighting Malicious Code

A computer forensics ‘how-to’ for fighting malicious code and
analyzing incidents

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.

About the author

Michael Hale Ligh is a malicious code analyst at Verisign
i Defense and Chief of Special Projects at MNIN Security.

Steven Adair is a member of the Shadowserver Foundation
and frequently analyzes malware and tracks botnets. He also
investigates cyber attacks of all kinds with an emphasis on those
linked to cyber espionage.

Blake Hartstein is the author of multiple security tools
and a Rapid Response Engineer at Verisign i Defense, where he
responds to malware incidents.

Matthew Richard has authored numerous security tools and
also ran a managed security service for banks and credit
unions.