Awesome Malware Analysis 
A curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources. Inspired by
awesome-python and
awesome-php.
View Chinese translation: 恶意软件分析大合集.md.
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
Harvest and analyze IOCs.
- AbuseHelper - An open-source
framework for receiving and redistributing abuse feeds and threat intel.
- AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - Share and
collaborate in developing Threat Intelligence.
- Combine - Tool to gather Threat
Intelligence indicators from publicly available sources.
- Fileintel - Pull intelligence per file hash.
- Hostintel - Pull intelligence per host.
- IntelMQ -
A tool for CERTs for processing incident data using a message queue.
- IOC Editor -
A free editor for XML IOC files.
- iocextract - Advanced Indicator
of Compromise (IOC) extractor, Python library and command-line tool.
- ioc_writer - Python library for
working with OpenIOC objects, from Mandiant.
- MalPipe - Malware/IOC ingestion and
processing engine, that enriches collected data.
- Massive Octo Spice -
Previously known as CIF (Collective Intelligence Framework). Aggregates IOCs
from various lists. Curated by the
CSIRT Gadgets Foundation.
- MISP - Malware Information Sharing
Platform curated by The MISP Project.
- Pulsedive - Free, community-driven threat intelligence platform collecting IOCs from open-source feeds.
- PyIOCe - A Python OpenIOC editor.
- RiskIQ - Research, connect, tag and
share IPs and domains. (Was PassiveTotal.)
- threataggregator -
Aggregates security threats from a number of sources, including some of
those listed below in other resources.
- ThreatConnect - TC Open allows you to see and
share open source threat data, with support and validation from our free community.
- ThreatCrowd - A search engine for threats,
with graphical visualization.
- ThreatIngestor - Build
automated threat intel pipelines sourcing from Twitter, RSS, GitHub, and
more.
- ThreatTracker - A Python
script to monitor and generate alerts based on IOCs indexed by a set of
Google Custom Search Engines.
- TIQ-test - Data visualization
and statistical analysis of Threat Intelligence feeds.
Other Resources
Threat intelligence and IOC resources.
- Autoshun (list) -
Snort plugin and blocklist.
- Bambenek Consulting Feeds -
OSINT feeds based on malicious DGA algorithms.
- Fidelis Barncat -
Extensive malware config database (must request access).
- CI Army (list) -
Network security blocklists.
- Critical Stack- Free Intel Market - Free
intel aggregator with deduplication featuring 90+ feeds and over 1.2M indicators.
- Cybercrime tracker - Multiple botnet active tracker.
- FireEye IOCs - Indicators of Compromise
shared publicly by FireEye.
- FireHOL IP Lists - Analytics for 350+ IP lists
with a focus on attacks, malware and abuse. Evolution, Changes History,
Country Maps, Age of IPs listed, Retention Policy, Overlaps.
- HoneyDB - Community driven honeypot sensor data collection and aggregation.
- hpfeeds - Honeypot feed protocol.
- Infosec - CERT-PA lists (IPs - Domains - URLs) - Blocklist service.
- InQuest REPdb - Continuous aggregation of IOCs from a variety of open reputation sources.
- InQuest IOCdb - Continuous aggregation of IOCs from a variety of blogs, Github repos, and Twitter.
- Internet Storm Center (DShield) - Diary and
searchable incident database, with a web API.
(unofficial Python library).
- malc0de - Searchable incident database.
- Malware Domain List - Search and share
malicious URLs.
- MetaDefender Threat Intelligence Feed -
List of the most looked up file hashes from MetaDefender Cloud.
- OpenIOC - Framework for sharing threat intelligence.
- Proofpoint Threat Intelligence -
Rulesets and more. (Formerly Emerging Threats.)
- Ransomware overview -
A list of ransomware overview with details, detection and prevention.
- STIX - Structured Threat Information eXpression -
Standardized language to represent and share cyber threat information.
Related efforts from MITRE:
- SystemLookup - SystemLookup hosts a collection of lists that provide information on
the components of legitimate and potentially unwanted programs.
- ThreatMiner - Data mining portal for threat
intelligence, with search.
- threatRECON - Search for indicators, up to 1000
free per month.
- ThreatShare - C2 panel tracker
- Yara rules - Yara rules repository.
- YETI - Yeti is a platform meant to organize observables, indicators of compromise, TTPs, and knowledge on threats in a single, unified repository.
- ZeuS Tracker - ZeuS
blocklists.
Detection and Classification
Antivirus and other malware identification tools
- AnalyzePE - Wrapper for a
variety of tools for reporting on Windows PE files.
- Assemblyline - A scalable file triage and malware analysis system integrating the cyber security community's best tools..
- BinaryAlert - An open source, serverless
AWS pipeline that scans and alerts on uploaded files based on a set of
YARA rules.
- capa - Detects capabilities in executable files.
- chkrootkit - Local Linux rootkit detection.
- ClamAV - Open source antivirus engine.
- Detect It Easy(DiE) - A program for
determining types of files.
- Exeinfo PE - Packer, compressor detector, unpack
info, internal exe tools.
- ExifTool - Read, write and
edit file metadata.
- File Scanning Framework -
Modular, recursive file scanning solution.
- fn2yara - FN2Yara is a tool to generate
Yara signatures for matching functions (code) in an executable program.
- Generic File Parser - A Single Library Parser to extract meta information,static analysis and detect macros within the files.
- hashdeep - Compute digest hashes with
a variety of algorithms.
- HashCheck - Windows shell extension
to compute hashes with a variety of algorithms.
- Loki - Host based scanner for IOCs.
- Malfunction - Catalog and
compare malware at a function level.
- Manalyze - Static analyzer for PE
executables.
- MASTIFF - Static analysis
framework.
- MultiScanner - Modular file
scanning/analysis framework
- Nauz File Detector(NFD) - Linker/Compiler/Tool detector for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
- nsrllookup - A tool for looking
up hashes in NIST's National Software Reference Library database.
- packerid - A cross-platform
Python alternative to PEiD.
- PE-bear - Reversing tool for PE
files.
- PEframe - PEframe is an open source tool to perform static analysis on Portable Executable malware and malicious MS Office documents.
- PEV - A multiplatform toolkit to work with PE
files, providing feature-rich tools for proper analysis of suspicious binaries.
- PortEx - Java library to analyse PE files with a special focus on malware analysis and PE malformation robustness.
- Quark-Engine - An Obfuscation-Neglect Android Malware Scoring System
- Rootkit Hunter - Detect Linux rootkits.
- ssdeep - Compute fuzzy hashes.
- totalhash.py -
Python script for easy searching of the TotalHash.cymru.com
database.
- TrID - File identifier.
- YARA - Pattern matching tool for
analysts.
- Yara rules generator - Generate
yara rules based on a set of malware samples. Also contains a good
strings DB to avoid false positives.
- Yara Finder - A simple tool to yara match the file against various yara rules to find the indicators of suspicion.
Online Scanners and Sandboxes
Web-based multi-AV scanners, and malware sandboxes for automated analysis.
- anlyz.io - Online sandbox.
- any.run - Online interactive sandbox.
- AndroTotal - Free online analysis of APKs
against multiple mobile antivirus apps.
- BoomBox - Automatic deployment of Cuckoo
Sandbox malware lab using Packer and Vagrant.
- Cryptam - Analyze suspicious office documents.
- Cuckoo Sandbox - Open source, self hosted
sandbox and automated analysis system.
- cuckoo-modified - Modified
version of Cuckoo Sandbox released under the GPL. Not merged upstream due to
legal concerns by the author.
- cuckoo-modified-api - A
Python API used to control a cuckoo-modified sandbox.
- DeepViz - Multi-format file analyzer with
machine-learning classification.
- detux - A sandbox developed to do
traffic analysis of Linux malwares and capturing IOCs.
- DRAKVUF - Dynamic malware analysis
system.
- filescan.io - Static malware analysis, VBA/Powershell/VBS/JS Emulation
- firmware.re - Unpacks, scans and analyzes almost any
firmware package.
- HaboMalHunter - An Automated Malware
Analysis Tool for Linux ELF Files.
- Hybrid Analysis - Online malware
analysis tool, powered by VxSandbox.
- Intezer - Detect, analyze, and categorize malware by
identifying code reuse and code similarities.
- IRMA - An asynchronous and customizable
analysis platform for suspicious files.
- Joe Sandbox - Deep malware analysis with Joe Sandbox.
- Jotti - Free online multi-AV scanner.
- Limon - Sandbox for Analyzing Linux Malware.
- Malheur - Automatic sandboxed analysis
of malware behavior.
- malice.io - Massively scalable malware analysis framework.
- malsub - A Python RESTful API framework for
online malware and URL analysis services.
- Malware config - Extract, decode and display online
the configuration settings from common malwares.
- MalwareAnalyser.io - Online malware anomaly-based static analyser with heuristic detection engine powered by data mining and machine learning.
- Malwr - Free analysis with an online Cuckoo Sandbox
instance.
- MetaDefender Cloud - Scan a file, hash, IP, URL or
domain address for malware for free.
- NetworkTotal - A service that analyzes
pcap files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all
kinds of malware using Suricata configured with EmergingThreats Pro.
- Noriben - Uses Sysinternals Procmon to
collect information about malware in a sandboxed environment.
- PacketTotal - PacketTotal is an online engine for analyzing .pcap files, and visualizing the network traffic within.
- PDF Examiner - Analyse suspicious PDF files.
- ProcDot - A graphical malware analysis tool kit.
- Recomposer - A helper
script for safely uploading binaries to sandbox sites.
- sandboxapi - Python library for
building integrations with several open source and commercial malware sandboxes.
- SEE - Sandboxed Execution Environment (SEE)
is a framework for building test automation in secured Environments.
- SEKOIA Dropper Analysis - Online dropper analysis (Js, VBScript, Microsoft Office, PDF).
- VirusTotal - Free online analysis of malware
samples and URLs
- Visualize_Logs - Open source
visualization library and command line tools for logs. (Cuckoo, Procmon, more
to come...)
- Zeltser's List - Free
automated sandboxes and services, compiled by Lenny Zeltser.
Domain Analysis
Inspect domains and IP addresses.
- AbuseIPDB - AbuseIPDB is a project dedicated
to helping combat the spread of hackers, spammers, and abusive activity on the internet.
- badips.com - Community based IP blacklist service.
- boomerang - A tool designed
for consistent and safe capture of off network web resources.
- Cymon - Threat intelligence tracker, with IP/domain/hash
search.
- Desenmascara.me - One click tool to retrieve as
much metadata as possible for a website and to assess its good standing.
- Dig - Free online dig and other
network tools.
- dnstwist - Domain name permutation
engine for detecting typo squatting, phishing and corporate espionage.
- IPinfo - Gather information
about an IP or domain by searching online resources.
- Machinae - OSINT tool for
gathering information about URLs, IPs, or hashes. Similar to Automator.
- mailchecker - Cross-language
temporary email detection library.
- MaltegoVT - Maltego transform
for the VirusTotal API. Allows domain/IP research, and searching for file
hashes and scan reports.
- Multi rbl - Multiple DNS blacklist and forward
confirmed reverse DNS lookup over more than 300 RBLs.
- NormShield Services - Free API Services
for detecting possible phishing domains, blacklisted ip addresses and breached
accounts.
- PhishStats - Phishing Statistics with search for
IP, domain and website title
- Spyse - subdomains, whois, realted domains, DNS, hosts AS, SSL/TLS info,
- SecurityTrails - Historical and current WHOIS,
historical and current DNS records, similar domains, certificate information
and other domain and IP related API and tools.
- SpamCop - IP based spam block list.
- SpamHaus - Block list based on
domains and IPs.
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Free Website Malware
and Security Scanner.
- Talos Intelligence - Search for IP, domain
or network owner. (Previously SenderBase.)
- TekDefense Automater - OSINT tool
for gathering information about URLs, IPs, or hashes.
- URLhaus - A project from abuse.ch with the goal
of sharing malicious URLs that are being used for malware distribution.
- URLQuery - Free URL Scanner.
- urlscan.io - Free URL Scanner & domain information.
- Whois - DomainTools free online whois
search.
- Zeltser's List - Free
online tools for researching malicious websites, compiled by Lenny Zeltser.
- ZScalar Zulu - Zulu URL Risk Analyzer.
Browser Malware
Analyze malicious URLs. See also the domain analysis and
documents and shellcode sections.
- Bytecode Viewer - Combines
multiple Java bytecode viewers and decompilers into one tool, including
APK/DEX support.
- Firebug - Firefox extension for web development.
- Java Decompiler - Decompile and inspect Java apps.
- Java IDX Parser - Parses Java
IDX cache files.
- JSDetox - JavaScript
malware analysis tool.
- jsunpack-n - A javascript
unpacker that emulates browser functionality.
- Krakatau - Java decompiler,
assembler, and disassembler.
- Malzilla - Analyze malicious web pages.
- RABCDAsm - A "Robust
ActionScript Bytecode Disassembler."
- SWF Investigator -
Static and dynamic analysis of SWF applications.
- swftools - Tools for working with Adobe Flash
files.
- xxxswf - A
Python script for analyzing Flash files.
Documents and Shellcode
Analyze malicious JS and shellcode from PDFs and Office documents. See also
the browser malware section.
- AnalyzePDF - A tool for
analyzing PDFs and attempting to determine whether they are malicious.
- box-js - A tool for studying JavaScript
malware, featuring JScript/WScript support and ActiveX emulation.
- diStorm - Disassembler for analyzing
malicious shellcode.
- InQuest Deep File Inspection - Upload common malware lures for Deep File Inspection and heuristical analysis.
- JS Beautifier - JavaScript unpacking and deobfuscation.
- libemu - Library and tools for x86 shellcode
emulation.
- malpdfobj - Deconstruct malicious PDFs
into a JSON representation.
- OfficeMalScanner - Scan for
malicious traces in MS Office documents.
- olevba - A script for parsing OLE
and OpenXML documents and extracting useful information.
- Origami PDF - A tool for
analyzing malicious PDFs, and more.
- PDF Tools - pdfid,
pdf-parser, and more from Didier Stevens.
- PDF X-Ray Lite - A PDF analysis tool,
the backend-free version of PDF X-RAY.
- peepdf - Python
tool for exploring possibly malicious PDFs.
- QuickSand - QuickSand is a compact C framework
to analyze suspected malware documents to identify exploits in streams of different
encodings and to locate and extract embedded executables.
- Spidermonkey -
Mozilla's JavaScript engine, for debugging malicious JS.
File Carving
For extracting files from inside disk and memory images.
- bulk_extractor - Fast file
carving tool.
- EVTXtract - Carve Windows
Event Log files from raw binary data.
- Foremost - File carving tool designed
by the US Air Force.
- hachoir3 - Hachoir is a Python library
to view and edit a binary stream field by field.
- Scalpel - Another data carving
tool.
- SFlock - Nested archive
extraction/unpacking (used in Cuckoo Sandbox).
Deobfuscation
Reverse XOR and other code obfuscation methods.
- Balbuzard - A malware
analysis tool for reversing obfuscation (XOR, ROL, etc) and more.
- de4dot - .NET deobfuscator and
unpacker.
- ex_pe_xor
& iheartxor -
Two tools from Alexander Hanel for working with single-byte XOR encoded
files.
- FLOSS - The FireEye Labs Obfuscated
String Solver uses advanced static analysis techniques to automatically
deobfuscate strings from malware binaries.
- NoMoreXOR - Guess a 256 byte
XOR key using frequency analysis.
- PackerAttacker - A generic
hidden code extractor for Windows malware.
- PyInstaller Extractor -
A Python script to extract the contents of a PyInstaller generated Windows
executable file. The contents of the pyz file (usually pyc files) present
inside the executable are also extracted and automatically fixed so that a
Python bytecode decompiler will recognize it.
- uncompyle6 - A cross-version
Python bytecode decompiler. Translates Python bytecode back into equivalent
Python source code.
- un{i}packer - Automatic and
platform-independent unpacker for Windows binaries based on emulation.
- unpacker - Automated malware
unpacker for Windows malware based on WinAppDbg.
- unxor - Guess XOR keys using
known-plaintext attacks.
- VirtualDeobfuscator -
Reverse engineering tool for virtualization wrappers.
- XORBruteForcer -
A Python script for brute forcing single-byte XOR keys.
- XORSearch & XORStrings -
A couple programs from Didier Stevens for finding XORed data.
- xortool - Guess XOR key length, as
well as the key itself.
Debugging and Reverse Engineering
Disassemblers, debuggers, and other static and dynamic analysis tools.
- angr - Platform-agnostic binary analysis
framework developed at UCSB's Seclab.
- bamfdetect - Identifies and extracts
information from bots and other malware.
- BAP - Multiplatform and
open source (MIT) binary analysis framework developed at CMU's Cylab.
- BARF - Multiplatform, open
source Binary Analysis and Reverse engineering Framework.
- binnavi - Binary analysis IDE for
reverse engineering based on graph visualization.
- Binary ninja - A reversing engineering platform
that is an alternative to IDA.
- Binwalk - Firmware analysis tool.
- BluePill - Framework for executing and debugging evasive malware and protected executables.
- Capstone - Disassembly framework for
binary analysis and reversing, with support for many architectures and
bindings in several languages.
- codebro - Web based code browser using
clang to provide basic code analysis.
- Cutter - GUI for Radare2.
- DECAF (Dynamic Executable Code Analysis Framework)
- A binary analysis platform based on QEMU. DroidScope is now an extension to DECAF.
- dnSpy - .NET assembly editor, decompiler
and debugger.
- dotPeek - Free .NET Decompiler and
Assembly Browser.
- Evan's Debugger (EDB) - A
modular debugger with a Qt GUI.
- Fibratus - Tool for exploration
and tracing of the Windows kernel.
- FPort - Reports
open TCP/IP and UDP ports in a live system and maps them to the owning application.
- GDB - The GNU debugger.
- GEF - GDB Enhanced Features, for exploiters
and reverse engineers.
- Ghidra - A software reverse engineering (SRE) framework created and maintained by the National Security Agency Research Directorate.
- hackers-grep - A utility to
search for strings in PE executables including imports, exports, and debug
symbols.
- Hopper - The macOS and Linux Disassembler.
- IDA Pro - Windows
disassembler and debugger, with a free evaluation version.
- IDR - Interactive Delphi Reconstructor
is a decompiler of Delphi executable files and dynamic libraries.
- Immunity Debugger - Debugger for
malware analysis and more, with a Python API.
- ILSpy - ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.
- Kaitai Struct - DSL for file formats / network protocols /
data structures reverse engineering and dissection, with code generation
for C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby.
- LIEF - LIEF provides a cross-platform library
to parse, modify and abstract ELF, PE and MachO formats.
- ltrace - Dynamic analysis for Linux executables.
- mac-a-mal - An automated framework
for mac malware hunting.
- objdump - Part of GNU binutils,
for static analysis of Linux binaries.
- OllyDbg - An assembly-level debugger for Windows
executables.
- OllyDumpEx - Dump memory
from (unpacked) malware Windows process and store raw or rebuild PE file.
This is a plugin for OllyDbg, Immunity Debugger, IDA Pro, WinDbg, and x64dbg.
- PANDA - Platform for Architecture-Neutral
Dynamic Analysis.
- PEDA - Python Exploit Development
Assistance for GDB, an enhanced display with added commands.
- pestudio - Perform static analysis of Windows
executables.
- Pharos - The Pharos binary analysis framework
can be used to perform automated static analysis of binaries.
- plasma - Interactive
disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS.
- PPEE (puppy) - A Professional PE file Explorer for
reversers, malware researchers and those who want to statically inspect PE
files in more detail.
- Process Explorer -
Advanced task manager for Windows.
- Process Hacker - Tool that monitors
system resources.
- Process Monitor -
Advanced monitoring tool for Windows programs.
- PSTools - Windows
command-line tools that help manage and investigate live systems.
- Pyew - Python tool for malware
analysis.
- PyREBox - Python scriptable reverse
engineering sandbox by the Talos team at Cisco.
- Qiling Framework - Cross platform emulation and sanboxing
framework with instruments for binary analysis.
- QKD - QEMU with embedded WinDbg
server for stealth debugging.
- Radare2 - Reverse engineering framework, with
debugger support.
- RegShot - Registry compare utility
that compares snapshots.
- RetDec - Retargetable machine-code decompiler with an
online decompilation service and
API that you can use in your tools.
- ROPMEMU - A framework to analyze, dissect
and decompile complex code-reuse attacks.
- Scylla Imports Reconstructor - Find and fix
the IAT of an unpacked / dumped PE32 malware.
- ScyllaHide - An Anti-Anti-Debug library
and plugin for OllyDbg, x64dbg, IDA Pro, and TitanEngine.
- SMRT - Sublime Malware Research Tool, a
plugin for Sublime 3 to aid with malware analyis.
- strace - Dynamic analysis for
Linux executables.
- StringSifter - A machine learning tool
that automatically ranks strings based on their relevance for malware analysis.
- Triton - A dynamic binary analysis (DBA) framework.
- Udis86 - Disassembler library and tool
for x86 and x86_64.
- Vivisect - Python tool for
malware analysis.
- WinDbg - multipurpose debugger for the Microsoft Windows computer operating system, used to debug user mode applications, device drivers, and the kernel-mode memory dumps.
- X64dbg - An open-source x64/x32 debugger for windows.
Network
Analyze network interactions.
- Bro - Protocol analyzer that operates at incredible
scale; both file and network protocols.
- BroYara - Use Yara rules from Bro.
- CapTipper - Malicious HTTP traffic
explorer.
- chopshop - Protocol analysis and
decoding framework.
- CloudShark - Web-based tool for packet analysis
and malware traffic detection.
- FakeNet-NG - Next generation
dynamic network analysis tool.
- Fiddler - Intercepting web proxy designed
for "web debugging."
- Hale - Botnet C&C monitor.
- Haka - An open source security oriented
language for describing protocols and applying security policies on (live)
captured traffic.
- HTTPReplay - Library for parsing
and reading out PCAP files, including TLS streams using TLS Master Secrets
(used in Cuckoo Sandbox).
- INetSim - Network service emulation, useful when
building a malware lab.
- Laika BOSS - Laika BOSS is a file-centric
malware analysis and intrusion detection system.
- Malcolm - Malcolm is a powerful, easily
deployable network traffic analysis tool suite for full packet capture artifacts
(PCAP files) and Zeek logs.
- Malcom - Malware Communications
Analyzer.
- Maltrail - A malicious traffic
detection system, utilizing publicly available (black)lists containing
malicious and/or generally suspicious trails and featuring an reporting
and analysis interface.
- mitmproxy - Intercept network traffic on the fly.
- Moloch - IPv4 traffic capturing, indexing
and database system.
- NetworkMiner - Network
forensic analysis tool, with a free version.
- ngrep - Search through network traffic
like grep.
- PcapViz - Network topology and
traffic visualizer.
- Python ICAP Yara - An
ICAP Server with yara scanner for URL or content.
- Squidmagic - squidmagic is a tool
designed to analyze a web-based network traffic to detect central command
and control (C&C) servers and malicious sites, using Squid proxy server and
Spamhaus.
- Tcpdump - Collect network traffic.
- tcpick - Trach and reassemble TCP streams
from network traffic.
- tcpxtract - Extract files from network
traffic.
- Wireshark - The network traffic analysis
tool.
Memory Forensics
Tools for dissecting malware in memory images or running systems.
- BlackLight - Windows/MacOS
forensics client supporting hiberfil, pagefile, raw memory analysis.
- DAMM - Differential Analysis of
Malware in Memory, built on Volatility.
- evolve - Web interface for the
Volatility Memory Forensics Framework.
- FindAES - Find AES
encryption keys in memory.
- inVtero.net - High speed memory
analysis framework developed in .NET supports all Windows x64, includes
code integrity and write support.
- Muninn - A script to automate portions
of analysis using Volatility, and create a readable report.
Orochi - Orochi is an open source framework for
collaborative forensic memory dump analysis.
- Rekall - Memory analysis framework,
forked from Volatility in 2013.
- TotalRecall - Script based
on Volatility for automating various malware analysis tasks.
- VolDiff - Run Volatility on memory
images before and after malware execution, and report changes.
- Volatility - Advanced
memory forensics framework.
- VolUtility - Web Interface for
Volatility Memory Analysis framework.
- WDBGARK -
WinDBG Anti-RootKit Extension.
- WinDbg -
Live memory inspection and kernel debugging for Windows systems.
Windows Artifacts
- AChoir - A live incident response
script for gathering Windows artifacts.
- python-evt - Python
library for parsing Windows Event Logs.
- python-registry - Python
library for parsing registry files.
- RegRipper
(GitHub) -
Plugin-based registry analysis tool.
Storage and Workflow
- Aleph - Open Source Malware Analysis
Pipeline System.
- CRITs - Collaborative Research Into Threats, a
malware and threat repository.
- FAME - A malware analysis
framework featuring a pipeline that can be extended with custom modules,
which can be chained and interact with each other to perform end-to-end
analysis.
- Malwarehouse - Store, tag, and
search malware.
- Polichombr - A malware analysis
platform designed to help analysts to reverse malwares collaboratively.
- stoQ - Distributed content analysis
framework with extensive plugin support, from input to output, and everything
in between.
- Viper - A binary management and analysis framework for
analysts and researchers.
Miscellaneous
- al-khaser - A PoC malware
with good intentions that aimes to stress anti-malware systems.
- CryptoKnight - Automated cryptographic algorithm reverse engineering and classification framework.
- DC3-MWCP -
The Defense Cyber Crime Center's Malware Configuration Parser framework.
- FLARE VM - A fully customizable,
Windows-based, security distribution for malware analysis.
- MalSploitBase - A database
containing exploits used by malware.
- Malware Museum - Collection of
malware programs that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Malware Organiser - A simple tool to organise large malicious/benign files into a organised Structure.
- Pafish - Paranoid Fish, a demonstration
tool that employs several techniques to detect sandboxes and analysis
environments in the same way as malware families do.
- REMnux - Linux distribution and docker images for
malware reverse engineering and analysis.
- Tsurugi Linux - Linux distribution designed to support your DFIR investigations, malware analysis and OSINT (Open Source INTelligence) activities.
- Santoku Linux - Linux distribution for mobile
forensics, malware analysis, and security.
Resources
Books
Essential malware analysis reading material.
Other
- APT Notes - A collection of papers
and notes related to Advanced Persistent Threats.
- Ember - Endgame Malware BEnchmark for Research,
a repository that makes it easy to (re)create a machine learning model that can be used
to predict a score for a PE file based on static analysis.
- File Formats posters - Nice visualization
of commonly used file format (including PE & ELF).
- Honeynet Project - Honeypot tools, papers, and
other resources.
- Kernel Mode - An active community
devoted to malware analysis and kernel development.
- Malicious Software - Malware
blog and resources by Lenny Zeltser.
- Malware Analysis Search -
Custom Google search engine from Corey Harrell.
- Malware Analysis Tutorials -
The Malware Analysis Tutorials by Dr. Xiang Fu, a great resource for learning
practical malware analysis.
- Malware Analysis, Threat Intelligence and Reverse Engineering -
Presentation introducing the concepts of malware analysis, threat intelligence
and reverse engineering. Experience or prior knowledge is not required. Labs
link in description.
- Malware Persistence - Collection
of various information focused on malware persistence: detection (techniques),
response, pitfalls and the log collection (tools).
- Malware Samples and Traffic - This
blog focuses on network traffic related to malware infections.
- Malware Search+++ Firefox extension allows
you to easily search some of the most popular malware databases
- Practical Malware Analysis Starter Kit -
This package contains most of the software referenced in the Practical Malware
Analysis book.
- RPISEC Malware Analysis - These are the
course materials used in the Malware Analysis course at at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute during Fall 2015.
- WindowsIR: Malware - Harlan
Carvey's page on Malware.
- Windows Registry specification -
Windows registry file format specification.
- /r/csirt_tools - Subreddit for CSIRT
tools and resources, with a
malware analysis flair.
- /r/Malware - The malware subreddit.
- /r/ReverseEngineering -
Reverse engineering subreddit, not limited to just malware.
Pull requests and issues with suggestions are welcome! Please read the
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Thanks
This list was made possible by:
- Lenny Zeltser and other contributors for developing REMnux, where I
found many of the tools in this list;
- Michail Hale Ligh, Steven Adair, Blake Hartstein, and Mather Richard for
writing the Malware Analyst's Cookbook, which was a big inspiration for
creating the list;
- And everyone else who has sent pull requests or suggested links to add here!
Thanks!
A curated 'awesome list' of malware analysis tools and resources, covering sample collection, sandboxes, detection tools, threat intelligence feeds, reverse engineering, and forensics.