Re: Malware analysis.

Jason,

In my opinion one need to know Assembly and Reversing well to be a
Malware Analyst/Reverse Engineer . For beginners it's good a follow
the following path in order

**Security Tube

Assembly Megaprimer (Windows & Linux)
http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=5
http://www.securitytube.net/groups?operation=view&groupId=6

**OpenSecurityTraining

Intro to x86
http://opensecuritytraining.info/IntroX86.html

Malware Dynamic Analysis
http://opensecuritytraining.info/MalwareDynamicAnalysis.html

Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software
http://opensecuritytraining.info/IntroductionToReverseEngineering.html

Reverse Engineering Malware
http://opensecuritytraining.info/ReverseEngineeringMalware.html

Rootkits
http://opensecuritytraining.info/Rootkits.html


Practical Malware Analysis (http://amzn.com/1593272901) is an awesome book.


Thanks

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