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Malware analysis tools used alongside "Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-on Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software" Book by Andrew Honig and Michael Sikorski. Some are custom written but most are straight from the book.

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to download the repo

Use command line git or download with a browser

  • Using Git

Navigate to the directory where the repo will be cloned and then use

git clone https://github.com/rptucker/analysisTools.git

Move into the directory to access the tools and installers

Tools

  • 7z1805.exe - 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
  • Dependecy Walker - A utility that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules
  • hasher.py - A script written by me to compute file hashes, it currently supports MD5, SHA1, and SHA256
  • hasher - The compiled binary of hasher.py
  • nc111.nt.zip - Netcat for windows
  • pebinstsp.exe - PEBrowse Professional is a static-analysis tool and disassembler for Win32/Win64 executables and Microsoft .NET assemblies.
  • PEiD - detects most common packers, cryptors and compilers for PE files, however support was discontinued since April 2011
  • PEview - Used for viewing the PE file header
  • regshot - Regshot is an open-source (LGPL) registry compare utility that allows you to quickly take a snapshot of your registry and then compare it with a second one - done after doing system changes or installing a new software product.
  • reshacker_setup.exe - Resource Hacker™ has been designed to be the complete resource editing tool: compiling, viewing, decompiling and recompiling resources for both 32bit and 64bit Windows executables.
  • sdl-apatedns.zip - ApateDNS™ is a tool for controlling DNS responses though an easy-to-use GUI. As a phony DNS server, ApateDNS spoofs DNS responses to a user-specified IP address by listening on UDP port 53 on the local machine.
  • strings.exe - It scans the file you pass it for UNICODE (or ASCII) strings of a default length of 3 or more UNICODE (or ASCII) characters
  • Sysinternals Suite - the individual troubleshooting tools and help files from Microsoft
  • upx394w.zip - UPX is a free, portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several executable formats
  • Wireshark - Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer

Not included, but recommended

  • Git - Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Acknowledgments

  • The stackoverflow community
  • My dog

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