Malware and Virology

Meaning malicious code and viral code, and to clear some facts viruses/worm don’t make a part of malicious software, they have their own category->virology().

What will we have in this category? Resources to malware (like rootkits and trojans) and virology (virus, worms), but also shellcode.

Why shellcode? Due to it’s malicious use. Common languages for there two categories: C/C++ and Assembly. You’ll need an assembler+linker, C compiler and a debugger like OllyDbg, the rest I’ve taken care myself.

• C/C++
• Assembly

Malware

What exactly is malware? As I said rootkits, trojans and shellcode.

• Milw0rm – whitepapers with different topics, but should read the ones that speak about malware and shellcoding (stack smashing)
• Rootkit – tutorials, techniques and examples on how to write rootkits under windows.
• Damage, Inc. – ezine which includes trojans source code, but there should be others too.

Virology

For this sub-category don’t need to tell you many resources, because there is a website on the net which has everything needed, from sources, engines, viruses, hoaxes, worms, tutorials, etc. No wonder it’s called VXHeavens.

Just some advices for you before you enter this magnific world of virology, start of by downloading well known ezines like 40HEX, VLAD, 29A and some lame ones (don’t know names right know) from which you’ll understand the basics, because the three mags I mentioned were always presenting revolutionary stuff and at the beginning might be a bit hard for you to understand.

From some time ago there is no link on the website to the ezines so this is why use this link to have access to them.

Not more to say, I will just let you explore beyond this point… because malware and virology was always about exploring, and trying something different.