https://github.com/paulveillard/cybersecurity-malware

An ongoing & curated collection of awesome software best practices and techniques, libraries and frameworks, E-books and videos, websites, blog posts, links to github Repositories, technical guidelines and important resources about Malware, Rootkits, and botnets in Cybersecurity.
https://github.com/paulveillard/cybersecurity-malware

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An ongoing & curated collection of awesome software best practices and techniques, libraries and frameworks, E-books and videos, websites, blog posts, links to github Repositories, technical guidelines and important resources about Malware, Rootkits, and botnets in Cybersecurity.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/paulveillard/cybersecurity-malware
• Owner: paulveillard
• Created: 2023-03-04T02:06:24.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-25T15:34:10.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-07T21:11:42.262Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: botnet-tools, botnets, malware, rootkit
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• Size: 13.1 MB
• Stars: 10
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: contributing.md
  • Code of conduct: code-of-conduct.md

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# Malware

An ongoing & curated collection of awesome software best practices and techniques, libraries and frameworks, E-books and videos, websites, blog posts, links to github Repositories, technical guidelines and important resources about Malware, Rootkits, and botnets in Cybersecurity.

> Thanks to all contributors, you're awesome and wouldn't be possible without you! Our goal is to build a categorized community-driven collection of very well-known resources.

## Table of Contents

- [About Malware](#)

- [Malware Classification](#)

  - [By Types](#)

### About Malware

![malware](https://github.com/paulveillard/cybersecurity-malware/blob/main/img/malware.jpg)

Malware is still a force to be reckoned with, and advances in technology did not slow it down.

> [Malware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware) (short for “malicious software”) is a file or code, typically delivered over a network, that infects, explores, steals or conducts virtually any behavior an attacker wants. And because malware comes in so many variants, there are numerous methods to infect computer systems

#### Malware Types

There are many possible ways of categorizing malware and some malicious software may overlap into two or more categories.Broadly, software can categorised into three types: 

- (i) goodware; 

- (ii) greyware 

- and (iii) malware.

|          |                                                                                                      |                                                            |       |   |

|----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------|-------|---|

|   Type   |                                            Characteristics                                           |                          Examples                          | Notes |   |

| Goodware | Obtained from trustworthy sources                                                                    | Google Play apps, Buggy software                            |       |   |

| Malware  | Broad consensus among antivirus software that program is malicious or obtained from flagged sources. | Viruses, Worms, Root kits, Backdoors, Ransomware, Trojan horses |       |   |

| Greyware | Insufficient consensus and/or metrics                                                                | Potentially unwanted programs, Spyware Adware.               |       |   |