GREM - Study Suggestions

daydreamoblivion28

I've been working as a Junior Malware Analyst for two years, I want to get the GREM cert ,but I don't have money to attend the class so I'm thinking of challenging the cert without the class. Can anyone make some recommendations on what to study?

mokaz

daydreamoblivion28 wrote: »

I've been working as a Junior Malware Analyst for two years, I want to get the GREM cert ,but I don't have money to attend the class so I'm thinking of challenging the cert without the class. Can anyone make some recommendations on what to study?

Hi there,

Few books you might want to check:

Practical Malware Analysis - The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems - Digital Forensics Field Guides
Malware Forensics Field Guide for UNIX Systems - Digital Forensics Field Guides
Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation
Reversing - Secrets of Reverse Engineering
Assembly Language - Step by Step - 3rd Edition
Hacking - The Art of Exploitation - 2nd Edition

Cheers,
m.

ramrunner800

mokaz wrote: »

Hi there,

Few books you might want to check:

Practical Malware Analysis - The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software
Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems - Digital Forensics Field Guides
Malware Forensics Field Guide for UNIX Systems - Digital Forensics Field Guides
Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation
Reversing - Secrets of Reverse Engineering
Assembly Language - Step by Step - 3rd Edition
Hacking - The Art of Exploitation - 2nd Edition

Cheers,
m.

These are great suggestions, though they only cover 60%ish of the content of the cert. They cover the Windows binary reversing content in great depth (honestly you just need PMA), but you also need to be adept at Windows memory forensics, Office Document reversing, and script reversing/obfuscation. The Art of Memory Forensics will cover you for the memory forensics portion, but I don't know of any books that cover the document reversing. There are a great many blogs that cover that though.