private research - setting up a malware lab

hi, anyone looking for some serious research on his own and to setup
a proper professional lab environment, should check this out:

ReAssure Project Home Page


Besides that, for collecting some malware on the public side and
to stay on top of latest trends - setup a nepenthes honeypot:

code.mwcollect.org

Have fun & enjoy your lab research!
/brtw2003

Thanks for the share of information, This is something I have always wanted to do or even be part of a team that collaborates to research malware. Back when I started out I use to do some side work and when people had malware related issues I use to save the malware to disk and open them with a hex editor, with this it will be ten times better. Thanks again

excellent!

I've lately been reviewing Thomas Wilhelm's "Professional Penetration Testing" publication
(Amazon.com: Professional Penetration Testing: Creating and Operating a Formal Hacking Lab (9781597494250): Thomas…) for the exact same purpose.

Thanks for the additional resources!

another great resource is the "malware analysts cookbook" i'm not usually one to plug stuff on the forums or bump an old topic but i thought this book meritted at least a mention. the authors really stand behind it and if you send them an email they respond pretty quickly, which is incredibly rare nowadays