// What to read next
What to read after The Art of Mac Malware, Volume 1
Where to go after The Art of Mac Malware, Volume 1, picked from our catalog. The next step up from advanced level, weighted toward the topics this book covers.
01 · 2009
Les virus informatiques : théorie, pratique et applications
Éric Filiol's reference French-language treatment of computer virology. Formal theory, infection mechanisms, offensive and defensive applications, with academic rigor rare on the topic.
Advanced5/5Éric Filiol02 · 2024
Evasive Malware
Kyle Cucci on the anti-analysis arms race: sandbox detection, anti-debug, anti-VM, packing, and the analyst-side tooling and tradecraft that get past those layers.
Advanced4/5Kyle Cucci03 · 2014
Practical Reverse Engineering
A working reverser's textbook from three Microsoft / Quarkslab veterans, covering the architectures and toolchain you'll actually meet on real targets, including the Windows kernel and modern obfuscation patterns.
Advanced4/5Bruce Dang, Alexandre Gazet, Elias Bachaalany04 · 2019
Rootkits and Bootkits
Matrosov, Rodionov and Bratus on persistent, deeply-embedded malware: kernel rootkits, MBR/UEFI bootkits, and the forensic techniques that surface them. Strongly Windows-internals oriented.
Advanced4/5Alex Matrosov, Eugene Rodionov, Sergey Bratus05 · 2007
Techniques virales avancées
Specialized follow-up to Filiol's Les virus informatiques. Dives into advanced malicious-code attack techniques and their defensive analysis.
Advanced4/5Éric Filiol06 · 2009
The Mac Hacker's Handbook
Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi's 2009 deep dive into the Mac OS X exploit landscape — Mach-O, IPC, sandboxing as it then existed, and the early-Intel-Mac exploitation chains.
Advanced3/5Charlie Miller, Dino Dai Zovi07 · 2018
Practical Binary Analysis
Dennis Andriesse on the binary toolchain you can actually script: ELF internals, dynamic taint analysis, symbolic execution and instrumentation with concrete code-along examples.
Advanced5/5Dennis Andriesse08 · 2014
The Art of Memory Forensics
Ligh, Case, Levy, and Walters' canonical reference on memory analysis with Volatility — the technique, the tooling, and the operating-system internals it depends on, across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Advanced5/5Michael Hale Ligh, Andrew Case, Jamie Levy, AAron Walters