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Best Windows Internals books
3 books in our catalog cover Windows Internals, ranked by rating. Each entry is an opinionated review with who the book is for and who should skip it.
01 · 2017
Windows Internals, Part 1
System architecture, processes, threads, memory management, and more
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 Solomon02 · 2019
Rootkits and Bootkits
Reversing Modern Malware and Next Generation Threats
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 Bratus03 · 2014
Practical Reverse Engineering
x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation
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 Bachaalany