private research - setting up a malware lab

[brtw2003]

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

[chap0]

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

[macphail]

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!

[crweedon]

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