mal-analysis-tools
A curated list of malware repositories, trackers and malware analysis tools
Malware repositories:
VirusTotal – https://virustotal.com
VirusBay – https://beta.virusbay.io
MalBeacon – https://malbeacon.com
Traffic.moe – https://traffic.moe
Brad traffic analysis – https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net
theZoo – https://github.com/ytisf/theZoo/tree/master/malwares
Contagio – https://contagiodump.blogspot.com
OpenMalware – https://openmalware.com
Virusign – http://www.virusign.com
DasMelwerk – https://dasmalwerk.eu
Malquarium – https://malquarium.org
VirusShare – https://virusshare.com
MalwareOne – https://malware.one
AVCaesar – https://avcaesar.malware.lu
0xffff0800 – https://iec56w4ibovnb4wc.onion.si/Library
Malshare.com – https://malshare.com
Malshare.io – https://malshare.io
Github repositories:
https://github.com/fabrimagic72/malware-samples
https://github.com/InQuest/malware-samples
https://github.com/0x48piraj/MalWAReX
https://github.com/NEUAI/MalwareLibrary
https://github.com/Tlgyt/The-Collection
Malware trackers:
URLHaus – https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/browse/
ViriBack – http://tracker.viriback.com
0btemoslab – http://tracker.0btemoslab.com
Malwaresuck – https://malwaresuck.com
Benkow – http://benkow.cc/passwords.php?page=1
Haruko – https://tracker.fumik0.com
VXVault – http://vxvault.net/ViriList.php
CC Tracker – https://cybercrime-tracker.net
Malc0de – http://malc0de.com/database
CRDF – https://threatcenter.crdf.fr
MDL – https://www.malwaredomainlist.com/mdl.php
Tweet IOC – http://tweettioc.com
Stealer Tracker – http://malwr.cc
ThreatShare – https://threatshare.io/malware/\
Automated Sandbox evaluation:
VirusTotal – https://www.virustotal.com
Hybrid-Analysis – https://www.hybrid-analysis.com
VMRay – https://www.vmray.com
Sndbox – https://app.sndbox.com
VirusBay – https://beta.virusbay.io
Any.run – https://app.any.run
Tria.ge – https://tria.ge
Intezer – https://analyze.intezer.com
Malwr – https://malwr.com
Malwr Cuckoo – http://mlwr.ee
Metadefender – https://metadefender.opswat.com
Valkyrie – https://valkyrie.comodo.com
Joe Sandbox – https://www.joesandbox.com
Pikker – http://sandbox.pikker.ee
ViCheck – https://www.vicheck.ca
Jotti – https://virusscan.jotti.org
Virscan – http://virscan.org
Anubis – http://anubis.iseclab.org
Wepawet – https://wepawet.cs.ucsb.edu
Manalyzer – https://manalyzer.org
Unpacme – https://www.unpac.me
Static string analysis:
Linux:
file
trid
strings
floss
xxd
redress
ssdeep
telfhash
authentihash
gdb
strace
radare2
exiftool
elfdump
objdump
readelf
elfutils
pax-utils
imphash
ssdeep
authentihash
bulk-extractor
uudeview
foremost
scalpel
steghide
stegsnow
zsteg
stegosuite
stegbreak
stegdetect
PEpper – https://github.com/Th3Hurrican3/PEpper
pev
pecarve
pescanner.py
analysePE.py
AnalyzePE
upx
yara
ripPE – https://github.com/matonis/ripPE
Unipacker – https://github.com/unipacker/unipacker
Windows:
CFF Explorer – https://ntcore.com/?page_id=388
Resource Hacker – http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker
XN Resource Hacker – https://stefansundin.github.io/xn_resource_editor
Dependency Walker – http://www.dependencywalker.com
LordPE – http://www.woodmann.com/collaborative/tools/images/Bin_LordPE_2010-6-29_3.9_LordPE_1.41_Deluxe_b.zip
Scylla – https://github.com/NtQuery/Scylla
Detect It Easy – https://ntinfo.biz
PE Explorer – http://www.heaventools.com/overview.htm
Import REConstructor – https://github.com/NtQuery/Scylla
LordPE – https://www.aldeid.com/wiki/LordPE
PEiD – https://www.aldeid.com/wiki/PEiD
PEview – https://www.aldeid.com/wiki/PEView
FileAlyzer – https://www.safer-networking.org/products/filealyzer/
PEstudio – https://www.winitor.com/
Chimprec – https://www.aldeid.com/wiki/CHimpREC
PE Insider – https://cerbero.io/peinsider/
PEframe – https://github.com/guelfoweb/peframe
UPX – https://github.com/upx
Manalyze – https://github.com/JusticeRage/Manalyze
PortEx – https://github.com/katjahahn/PortEx
Signsrch – https://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz/signsrch.zip
Revelo – http://www.kahusecurity.com/2012/05/revelo-javascript-deobfuscator
UniExtract2 – https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2
MalUnpack – https://github.com/hasherezade/mal_unpack
PE_recovery_tools – https://github.com/hasherezade/pe_recovery_tools
Auto XOR decrypter – https://github.com/MRGEffitas/scripts/blob/master/auto_xor_decryptor.py
Live dynamic detonation:
Proxy
Fiddler – https://www.telerik.com/fiddler
Burp Suite – https://portswigger.net/burp/communitydownload
MitM
FakeDNS – https://www.fireeye.com/services/freeware/apatedns.html
ApateDNS – https://github.com/Crypt0s/FakeDns
C2
FakeNet – https://github.com/fireeye/flare-fakenet-ng
INetSim – https://www.inetsim.org
netcat – http://netcat.sourceforge.net
TCPView – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/tcpview
Wireshark – https://www.wireshark.org
Imaginary C2 – https://github.com/felixweyne/imaginaryC2
Suricata – https://suricata-ids.org/download/
Emerging Threat SIGs – https://rules.emergingthreats.net/
Tor – https://www.torproject.org/
Registry
RegShot – https://sourceforge.net/projects/regshot
WhatChanged – https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/what_changed.html
CaptureBAT – https://www.honeynet.org/node/315
Process
Process Hacker – https://github.com/processhacker/processhacker
Process Monitor – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
Process Explorer – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
ProcessSpawnControl – https://github.com/felixweyne/ProcessSpawnControl
ProcDOT – http://www.procdot.com
API
API Monitor – http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor#Download
APISpy – http://www.matcode.com/apis32.htm
Persistance
Autoruns – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns
Memory
volatility – https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility
Memoryze – https://www.fireeye.com/services/freeware/memoryze.html
OSR Driver Loader – https://www.aldeid.com/wiki/OSR-Driver-Loader
The Sleuth Kit – https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit
Truman – http://nsmwiki.org/Truman_Overview
yara – https://github.com/virustotal/yara
Frameworks
mastiff – https://github.com/KoreLogicSecurity/mastiff
IRMA – https://github.com/quarkslab/irma
VIPER – https://github.com/viper-framework/viper
Loki – https://github.com/Neo23x0/Loki
Multiscanner – https://github.com/mitre/multiscanner
chopshop – https://github.com/MITRECND/chopshop
Munin – https://github.com/Neo23x0/munin
Fenrir – https://github.com/Neo23x0/Fenrir
Harpoon – https://github.com/Neo23x0/harpoon
Manual reverse engineering:
PE:
Online – https://onlinedisassembler.com/static/home/index.html
IDA – https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/
Hex-Rays Decompiler – https://www.hex-rays.com/products/decompiler/
radare2 – https://github.com/radare/radare2
Binary Ninja – https://binary.ninja/
BinDiff – https://www.zynamics.com/bindiff.html
BinNavi – https://github.com/google/binnavi
Bochs – http://bochs.sourceforge.net/getcurrent.html
x64dbg – https://x64dbg.com/#start
WinDbg – https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/debugger-download-tools
OllyDbg – http://www.ollydbg.de/
ImmunityDbg – https://www.immunityinc.com/products/debugger/
Shellcode:
xorsearch – https://blog.didierstevens.com/2014/09/29/update-xorsearch-with-shellcode-detector/
scdbg – http://sandsprite.com/blogs/index.php?uid=7&pid=152
shellcode2exe – https://zeltser.com/convert-shellcode-to-assembly/
jmp2it – https://digital-forensics.sans.org/blog/2014/12/30/taking-control-of-the-instruction-pointer/
BlobRunner – https://github.com/OALabs/BlobRunner
.NET:
dnSpy – https://github.com/0xd4d/dnSpy
dotPeek – https://www.jetbrains.com/decompiler
ILSpy – https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy
JustDecompile – https://www.telerik.com/products/decompiler.aspx
JustAssembly – https://www.telerik.com/justassembly
Reflector – https://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/index
CodeReflect – http://www.devextras.com/decompiler
Dis# – http://www.netdecompiler.com
IL Disassembler – https://www.dotnetperls.com/il-disassembler
Disassembly Diagnoser – https://adamsitnik.com/Disassembly-Diagnoser
JS:
V8 – https://isc.sans.edu/diary/V8+as+an+Alternative+to+SpiderMonkey+for+JavaScript+Deobfuscation/12157
box-js – https://github.com/CapacitorSet/box-js
js-detox – https://github.com/svent/jsdetox
Flash:
SWFDec – https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wiki/swfdec
swf_mastah.py – https://github.com/9b/pdfxray_lite/blob/master/swf_mastah.py
VBA:
ViperMonkey – https://github.com/decalage2/ViperMonkey
olevba.py – https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/wiki/olevba
OLE:
OfficeMalScanner – http://www.reconstructer.org/code/OfficeMalScanner.zip
OLETools – https://www.decalage.info/python/oletools
Hachoir – https://bitbucket.org/haypo/hachoir/wiki/hachoir-urwid
EXEFilter – http://www.decalage.info/exefilter
RTF:
rtfproc
rtfprocrule
rtfraptor
rtfscan
rtfobj
rtfparser
rtfdump
PDF:
PDF Stream Dumper – http://sandsprite.com/blogs/index.php?uid=7&pid=57
PDF Dissector – https://blog.zynamics.com/2010/09/03/pdf-dissector-1-7-0-released/
PDF Tools – https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/pdf-tools/
pdfid.py – https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/pdf-tools/
pdfparser.py – https://blog.didierstevens.com/programs/pdf-tools/
peepdf.py – https://github.com/jesparza/peepdf
qpdf – http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/
pdfinfo
pdf2txt
pdfdetach
Other:
Kahusecurity Tools – http://www.kahusecurity.com/tools.html
DidierStevensSuite – https://github.com/DidierStevens/DidierStevensSuite
Awesome Malware Analysis list – https://github.com/rshipp/awesome-malware-analysis
Awesome Reversing list – https://github.com/tylerha97/awesome-reversing
Remnux – https://remnux.org/
SANS SIFT – https://digital-forensics.sans.org/community/downloads
FireEye FLARE-VM – https://github.com/fireeye/flare-vm
FireEye CommandoVM – https://github.com/fireeye/commando-vm
Webshell-intel – https://github.com/Neo23x0/webshell-intel
Malware-behaviors – https://github.com/MAECProject/malware-behaviors
MalTrail – https://github.com/stamparm/maltrail
YARA:
YaraScanner – https://github.com/mitre/yararules-python
Yara Analyzer – https://github.com/Neo23x0/yarAnalyzer
Yara Generator – https://github.com/Neo23x0/yarGen
Awesome-Yara – https://github.com/Neo23x0/awesome-yara
Malware-signatures – https://github.com/Neo23x0/malware-signatures
Signature-set – https://github.com/Neo23x0/signature-base
Yara-rules – https://github.com/Neo23x0/rules
mkYARA – https://blog.fox-it.com/2019/03/28/mkyara-writing-yara-rules-for-the-lazy-analyst/
VirusTotal:
VT Investigator paper – https://storage.googleapis.com/vt-gtm-wp-media/virustotal-for-investigators.pdf
The Malware is a github repository by Albert Zsigovits
