Awesome Malware Analysis

A curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources. Inspired by awesome-python and awesome-php.

• Malware Collection
  • Anonymizers
  • Honeypots
  • Malware Corpora
• Open Source Threat Intelligence
  • Tools
  • Other Resources
• Detection and Classification
• Online Scanners and Sandboxes
• Domain Analysis
• Browser Malware
• Documents and Shellcode
• File Carving
• Deobfuscation
• Debugging and Reverse Engineering
• Network
• Memory Forensics
• Windows Artifacts
• Storage and Workflow
• Miscellaneous
• Resources
  • Books
  • Other
• Related Awesome Lists
• Contributing
• Thanks

View Chinese translation: 恶意软件分析大合集.md.

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Malware Collection

Anonymizers

Web traffic anonymizers for analysts.

• Anonymouse.org - A free, web based anonymizer.
• OpenVPN - VPN software and hosting solutions.
• Privoxy - An open source proxy server with some privacy features.
• Tor - The Onion Router, for browsing the web without leaving traces of the client IP.

Honeypots

Trap and collect your own samples.

• Conpot - ICS/SCADA honeypot.
• Cowrie - SSH honeypot, based on Kippo.
• DemoHunter - Low interaction Distributed Honeypots.
• Dionaea - Honeypot designed to trap malware.
• Glastopf - Web application honeypot.
• Honeyd - Create a virtual honeynet.
• HoneyDrive - Honeypot bundle Linux distro.
• Honeytrap - Opensource system for running, monitoring and managing honeypots.
• MHN - MHN is a centralized server for management and data collection of honeypots. MHN allows you to deploy sensors quickly and to collect data immediately, viewable from a neat web interface.
• Mnemosyne - A normalizer for honeypot data; supports Dionaea.
• Thug - Low interaction honeyclient, for investigating malicious websites.

Malware Corpora

Malware samples collected for analysis.

• Clean MX - Realtime database of malware and malicious domains.
• Contagio - A collection of recent malware samples and analyses.
• Exploit Database - Exploit and shellcode samples.
• Infosec - CERT-PA - Malware samples collection and analysis.
• InQuest Labs - Evergrowing searchable corpus of malicious Microsoft documents.
• Javascript Mallware Collection - Collection of almost 40.000 javascript malware samples
• Malpedia - A resource providing rapid identification and actionable context for malware investigations.
• Malshare - Large repository of malware actively scrapped from malicious sites.
• Ragpicker - Plugin based malware crawler with pre-analysis and reporting functionalities
• theZoo - Live malware samples for analysts.
• Tracker h3x - Agregator for malware corpus tracker and malicious download sites.
• vduddu malware repo - Collection of various malware files and source code.
• VirusBay - Community-Based malware repository and social network.
• ViruSign - Malware database that detected by many anti malware programs except ClamAV.
• VirusShare - Malware repository, registration required.
• VX Vault - Active collection of malware samples.
• Zeltser's Sources - A list of malware sample sources put together by Lenny Zeltser.
• Zeus Source Code - Source for the Zeus trojan leaked in 2011.
• VX Underground - Massive and growing collection of free malware samples.

Open Source Threat Intelligence

Tools

Harvest and analyze IOCs.