Prerequisites

Regardless of your background or experience with malware analysis, you’ll find something useful in this book.

Chapter 1 through Chapter 3 discuss basic malware analysis techniques that even those with no security or programming experience will be able to use to perform malware triage. Chapter 4 through Chapter 14 cover more intermediate material that will arm you with the major tools and skills needed to analyze most malicious programs. These chapters do require some knowledge of programming. The more advanced material in Chapter 15 through Chapter 19 will be useful even for seasoned malware analysts because it covers strategies and techniques for analyzing even the most sophisticated malicious programs, such as programs utilizing ...

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