Rating: ★★★★☆ (4 of 5 stars)
The Book ‘Malware Analysis and Detection Engineering: A Comprehensive Approach to Detect and Analyze Modern Malware’ is a great resource for diving into the topic. The book has around 900 pages and covers a huge number of topics in the area of Malware Analysis and Detection Engineering, whereby the emphasis is on Malware Analysis.
There are many noticeable spelling errors in the book - even for non-native speakers. In some cases I had the feeling whole sentences were missing at some points. This is the reason I am generally sceptical of Apress books, but in this case the book was recommended by a friend. Due to these flaws the book only gets 4 out of 5 stars.
Despite the spelling errors, the book provides extensive and valueable content in my opinion if you have some prior knowledge in Cybersecurity. I got the impression that this book is a great introduction into a lot of topics related to Malware Analysis & Detection Engineering.
The introductions into the topics are great, but I doubt these will enable anyone without prior knowledge to properly understand certain topics in the book. Most pratical examples are based on Windows 7 with 32-bit, which is a little out of date. For some examples the source code is not available, which is a bit unfortune, because by providing the source code the exercises would be way more comprehensible. Apart from that it is awesome that there even are exercises and examples included in the book.
Overall the book is focussing on the practical parts of Malware Analysis what I enjoyed very much. If you are looking for a theoretical book dealing with the topics scientifically, this book is nothing for you. On some occasions in the book I had the impression there is some “advertisement” of the authors developed tools to analyze certain areas - like the Windows API calls - even if there are already other popular tools out there.
If you have some prior Cybersecurity knowledge and you are searching for a book that provides a superficial and practical dive into Malware Analysis & Detection Engineering I would recommend reading the book.