Malware Analyst’s Cookbook and DVD
Another technical book, this time because my employer lets me buy random technical books as long as I pinky swear to read them and this one sounded interesting and got good reviews. First off, the book is a bit dated given its from 2011 -- there are lots of references to Ubuntu 10.10 for example and they say to avoid Python 3, which has its historical charm. This is unfortunate given the first section of the book talks about setting up honeypots to collect malware to examine, but Dionaea for example had its last commit in 2021. I am left wondering if there are more modern honey pot systems that people use these days. Secondly the book is definitely a cookbook and that's on me for not noticing this about the book before buying it -- its a series of recipes / scripts that do interesting things with malware. That said, it isn't really teaching a cohesive set of skills, its more of a series of stepping stones along the path you might follow. I think that's an unintended piece of important learning -- books with "cookbook" or "recipes" in their title probably aren't very good as an overview of…