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Understand how malware evades modern security products

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An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a severe form of cyberattack that lies low in the system for a prolonged time and locates and then exploits sensitive information. Preventing APTs requires a strong foundation of basic security techniques combined with effective security monitoring. This book will help you gain a red team perspective on exploiting system design and master techniques to prevent APT attacks. Once you’ve understood the internal design of operating systems, you’ll be ready to get hands-on with red team attacks and, further, learn how to create and compile C source code into an EXE program file. Throughout this book, you’ll explore the inner workings of how Windows systems run and how attackers abuse this knowledge to bypass antivirus products and protection. As you advance, you’ll cover practical examples of malware and online game hacking, such as EXE infection, shellcode development, software packers, UAC bypass, path parser vulnerabilities, and digital signature forgery, gaining expertise in keeping your system safe from this kind of malware. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to implement the red team techniques that you've learned on a victim's computer environment, attempting to bypass security and antivirus products, to test its defense against Windows APT attacks.

Who is this book for?

This book is for cybersecurity professionals- especially for anyone working on Windows security, or malware researchers, network administrators, ethical hackers looking to explore Windows exploit, kernel practice, and reverse engineering. A basic understanding of reverse engineering and C/C++ will be helpful.

What you will learn

Explore various DLL injection techniques for setting API hooks

Understand how to run an arbitrary program file in memory

Become familiar with malware obfuscation techniques to evade antivirus detection

Discover how malware circumvents current security measures and tools

Use Microsoft Authenticode to sign your code to avoid tampering

Explore various strategies to bypass UAC design for privilege escalation

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Panda Cow May 20, 2023

I've taken a good amount of courses in regards to malware development and normally they give you samples of how to do something without explaining it. In the first couple of chapters I really appreciated his comparison to other tools and visualizing what you're doing with the code as well as explaining what the code is doing.My first impressions reading this book, is it's straight to the point. All the information is valuable, almost like he summarized only what's important. In a field with so many books this is hard to come by and will be appreciated. Expect to learn something new from every page, even if you've been working in Cyber Security for a good amount of time.Overall this book is excellent. I would recommend it to any serous Information Security engineer on both sides of the fence (Red and Blue).

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JustGravy May 21, 2023

I was blown away by this book. At first it seemed almost too simple in its approach to explaining things. There wasn't a lot of elaboration on the why in some cases, just clear statements that one thing requires another, etc. The more I read though, the more I appreciated it. I'm not saying there isn't explanation in there, just that it's not bloated with dense material that ultimately wouldn't add value for most people. There's plenty for anyone to learn at any level of ability, and it's all really approachable because it's so succinct and matter of fact.Learning reverse engineering can be a real slog with infinite technical complexity, but in this book, you get what you're after without having to constantly cross reference or doing your own side research just to keep up. If you're looking for something with the depth of say Windows Internals, this isn't it (though that series would complement this book nicely). However, I don't think that's what it was intended to be, and what it is, is great. Highly recommended for anyone looking to enhance their knowledge of Windows RE or even to get started (as long as you have some basic knowledge of C/C++ it's very approachable).

Raymond Dec 23, 2023

Advanced Persistent Threats and the knowledge to reverse engineer malware and recognize APT's utilizing Windows API's and malware to extract data , maintain command and control and maintain persistence in your network requires a good understanding of complex attack methodologies designed to evade even the most modern detection and security tools. This guide is absolutely the best source i have found to date to gain insight and knowledge to detect,defend and emulate APT Tactics,Techniques and Procedures.

Andres Apr 26, 2023

I have been studying malware development and defense evasions recently. A lot of it involves lower level programming in C/C++ and interfacing with the Windows API. Not having a good foundation in C/C++ and even less in Windows API programming I struggled to understand a lot of research and techniques I was studying. While I could do the typically "stop and go research what you don't understand process" I had hoped to find something that would help me build that foundation more quickly.I feel that this book will allow me to build that foundation more quickly. While I haven't completed the book, I have been very satisfied based on what I've read so far. The author does a great job of conveying information without unnecessary fluff. He also provides links to further reading for those who would like a deeper understanding of a particular subject.Another reason I am so satisfied with the book is its value. I've sought resources like this and most are instructor lead courses that cost thousands of dollars. Its been nearly impossible to find something that would allow me to study at my pace and at such a low cost! I'm really excited to read the remainder of the book and continue learning.

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