You're reading from Malware Development for Ethical Hackers Learn how to develop various types of malware to strengthen cybersecurity

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810173

Length 390 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Mr. Zhassulan Zhussupov

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Malware Behavior: Injection, Persistence, and Privilege Escalation Techniques FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: A Quick Introduction to Malware Development

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Various Malware Injection Attacks

4. Chapter 3: Mastering Malware Persistence Mechanisms

5. Chapter 4: Mastering Privilege Escalation on Compromised Systems

6. Part 2: Evasion Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Anti-Debugging Tricks

8. Chapter 6: Navigating Anti-Virtual Machine Strategies

9. Chapter 7: Strategies for Anti-Disassembly

10. Chapter 8: Navigating the Antivirus Labyrinth – a Game of Cat and Mouse

11. Part 3: Math and Cryptography in Malware

12. Chapter 9: Exploring Hash Algorithms

13. Chapter 10: Simple Ciphers

14. Chapter 11: Unveiling Common Cryptography in Malware

15. Chapter 12: Advanced Math Algorithms and Custom Encoding

16. Part 4: Real-World Malware Examples

17. Chapter 13: Classic Malware Examples

18. Chapter 14: APT and Cybercrime

19. Chapter 15: Malware Source Code Leaks

20. Chapter 16: Ransomware and Modern Threats

21. Index

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Technical requirements

For this chapter, we will use the Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/) and Parrot Security OS (https://www.parrotsec.org/) virtual machines for development and demonstration purposes and Windows 10 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO) as the victim’s machine.

The next thing we’ll want to do is set up our development environment in Kali Linux. We’ll need to make sure we have the necessary tools installed, such as a text editor, compiler, and so on.

I’ll be using NeoVim (https://github.com/neovim/neovim) with syntax highlighting as a text editor. Neovim is a great choice if you want a lightweight, efficient text editor. However, you can use any other, such as VS Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/).

As far as compiling our examples, I’ll be using MinGW (https://www.mingw-w64.org/) for Linux, which can be installed by running the following command: