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Alternatives to Dissecting the Dark Web
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Dissecting the Dark Web. If Dissecting the Dark Web is the wrong fit at advanced level, start here.
01 · 2025
Cybersécurité et Malwares
Now in its 5th edition, the French-language reference for malware analysis by Sébastien Larinier and Paul Rascagnères, a well-known APT threat researcher, running from identification to Threat Intelligence across Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
Advanced4/5Sébastien Larinier, Paul Rascagnères02 · 2022
The Ransomware Hunting Team
Investigative journalism on the volunteers who quietly cracked ransomware to free victims for free, while the FBI mostly watched. A people-first look at the early ransomware economy.
Beginner4/5Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden03 · 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 Walters04 · 2025
Data Engineering for Cybersecurity
A decade-plus threat analyst teaches how to collect, normalize, enrich, and secure the telemetry (logs, events, metrics) that security teams depend on, using open-source tools like Filebeat, Logstash, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
Advanced4/5James Bonifield05 · 2025
The Art of Mac Malware, Volume 2
The detection-focused sequel to Volume 1, Wardle turns from analyzing Mac malware to building the heuristics and tooling that catch it, using macOS's security frameworks and real-world malware samples throughout.
Advanced4/5Patrick Wardle06 · 2024
Evading EDR
A component-by-component teardown of how modern EDR sensors actually collect telemetry, and where each data source can be starved, blinded, or bypassed.
Advanced4/5Matt Hand07 · 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 Cucci08 · 2023
The Android Malware Handbook
Machine-learning researchers and members of Meta's and Google's Android Security teams distill years of research into detecting banking trojans, ransomware, and SMS fraud on Android, combining manual analysis with classification models.
Advanced4/5Qian Han, Salvador Mandujano, Sebastian Porst, V.S. Subrahmanian, Sai Deep Tetali, Yanhai Xiong09 · 2022
The Art of Mac Malware, Volume 1
Patrick Wardle's deep dive on macOS malware analysis: persistence patterns, injection techniques, anti-analysis tricks, and the macOS-specific tooling needed to triage real samples.
Advanced4/5Patrick Wardle10 · 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 Bratus