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Alternatives to Rootkits and Bootkits
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Rootkits and Bootkits. If Rootkits and Bootkits is the wrong fit at advanced level, start here.
01 · 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 Bachaalany02 · 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 · 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 Filiol04 · 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 Wardle05 · 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 · 2017
Windows Internals, Part 1
The canonical Microsoft Press reference on Windows internals: how processes, threads, memory and system services are actually implemented in the modern Windows kernel. User-mode focus in this volume.
Advanced5/5Pavel Yosifovich, Alex Ionescu, Mark Russinovich, David Solomon07 · 2012
Practical Malware Analysis
Still the gold standard textbook for static and dynamic malware analysis on Windows.
Intermediate5/5Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig08 · 2021
The Hardware Hacking Handbook
Jasper van Woudenberg and Colin O'Flynn (NewAE / ChipWhisperer) on real hardware attacks: bus sniffing, fault injection, side-channel power analysis, and the lab work that turns a black box into a known target.
Advanced5/5Jasper van Woudenberg, Colin O'Flynn09 · 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 Andriesse10 · 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