REMnux, the Malware Analysis Linux OS 58
Trailrunner7 writes "A security expert has released a stripped-down Ubuntu distribution designed specifically for reverse-engineering malware. The OS, called REMnux, includes a slew of popular malware-analysis, network monitoring and memory forensics tools that comprise a very powerful environment for taking apart malicious code. REMnux is the creation of Lenny Zeltser, an expert on malware reverse engineering who teaches a popular course on the topic at SANS conferences. He put the operating system together after years of having students ask him which tools to use and what works best. He originally used Red Hat Linux, but recently decided that Ubuntu was a better fit. REMnux has three separate tools for analyzing Flash-specific malware, including SWFtools, Flasm and Flare, as well as several applications for analyzing malicious PDFs, including Didier Stevens' analysis tools. REMnux also has a number of tools for de-obfuscating JavaScript, including Rhino debugger, a version of Firefox with NoScript, JavaScript Deobfuscator and Firebug installed, and Windows Script Decoder."
Re:How do you analyze and debug Windows malware (Score:3, Informative)
Did you even read what they said? Most malware has code to prevent it from running or from running the same way in a virtual environment.
Re:Reminds me of... (Score:2, Informative)
And what the hell, so we have malware analyzer distribution in the story, a honey pot distribution in the parent, why don't we finish off this security distribution triumvirate with a penetration tester distribution as well: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ [backtrack-linux.org]
Re:stripped-down Ubuntu (Score:4, Informative)
Re:so much ego, so little marketshare (Score:2, Informative)
It's easy to "remix" a distro nowadays. It is pretty much just choose what packages you want, change a couple config files and you're done - not really any more difficult than your suggestion.
As it is, people can already install those extra packages from the customized distro or take the customized distro and install extra things in it.