Awesome Malware Analysis

A curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources. Inspired by awesome-python and awesome-php.

• Awesome Malware Analysis
  • Malware Collection
    • Anonymizers
    • Honeypots
    • Malware Corpora
  • Detection and Classification
  • Online Scanners and Sandboxes
  • Domain Analysis
  • Documents and Shellcode
  • Memory Forensics
  • Miscellaneous
• Resources
  • Books
  • Twitter
  • Other
• Related Awesome Lists
• Contributing

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Malware Collection

Anonymizers

Web traffic anonymizers for analysts.

• Anonymouse.org - A free, web based anonymizer.
• OpenVPN - VPN software and hosting solutions.
• Privoxy - An open source proxy server with some privacy features.
• Tor - The Onion Router, for browsing the web without leaving traces of the client IP.

Honeypots

Trap and collect your own samples.

Malware Corpora

Malware samples collected for analysis.

• Clean MX - Realtime database of malware and malicious domains.
• Contagio - A collection of recent malware samples and analyses.
• Exploit Database - Exploit and shellcode samples.
• Zeltser's Sources - A list of malware sample sources put together by Lenny Zeltser.

Detection and Classification

Antivirus and other malware identification tools

• AnalyzePE - Wrapper for a variety of tools for reporting on Windows PE files.
• ClamAV - Open source antivirus engine.
• YARA - Pattern matching tool for analysts.

Online Scanners and Sandboxes

• Cuckoo Sandbox - Open source, self hosted sandbox and automated analysis system.
• Jotti - Free online multi-AV scanner.
• Malwr - Free analysis with an online Cuckoo Sandbox instance.
• VirusTotal - Free online analysis of malware samples and URLs
• Zeltser's List - Free automated sandboxes and services, compiled by Lenny Zeltser.

Domain Analysis

Inspect domains and IP addresses.

• Dig - Free online dig and other network tools.
• IPinfo - Gather information about an IP or domain by searching online resources.
• Whois - DomainTools free online whois search.
• Zeltser's List - Free online tools for researching malicious websites, compiled by Lenny Zeltser.

Documents and Shellcode

• AnalyzePDF - A tool for analyzing PDFs and attempting to determine whether they are malicious.
• diStorm - Disassembler for analyzing malicious shellcode.
• JSDetox - JavaScript malware analysis tool.
• jsunpack-n - A javascript unpacker that emulates browser functionality.
• libemu - Library and tools for x86 shellcode emulation.
• malpdfobj - Deconstruct malicious PDFs into a JSON representation.
• OfficeMalScanner - Scan for malicious traces in MS Office documents.
• officeparser - A Python script for parsing the MS Office OLE document format.
• PDF Tools - pdfid, pdf-parser, and more from Didier Stevens.
• PDX X-Ray Lite - A PDF analysis tool, the backend-free version of PDF X-RAY.
• Spidermonkey - Mozilla's JavaScript engine, for debugging malicious JS.

Memory Forensics

Tools for dissecting malware in memory images or running systems.

• FindAES - Find AES encryption keys in memory.
• Rekall - Memory analysis framework, forked from Volatility in 2013.
• TotalRecall - Script based on Volatility for automating various malware analysis tasks.
• Volatility - Advanced memory forensics framework.
• WinDbg - Live memory inspection and kernel debugging for Windows systems.

Miscellaneous

• REMnux - Linux distribution and docker images for malware reverse engineering and analysis.

Resources

Books

Twitter

Other

• Malicious Software - Malware blog and resources by Lenny Zeltser.
• /r/Malware - The malware subreddit.
• /r/ReverseEngineering - Reverse engineering subreddit, not limited to just malware.

Related Awesome Lists

• Android Security
• Pentesting
• Security

Contributing

Pull requests and issues with suggestions are welcome!