Hi all,

I have been reading about Malware Analysis, Ive had some samples for analysis which I used for understanding.

Guys im looking for sources from where I can get malwares for analysis, currently im looking at sites like
MalwareDomainList
OffensiveComputing
Tuts4You

I would love to get a sample and a analysis report of the sample so that i can try all the things mentioned in the analysis. I want to do this till im a little familiar with the basics. After that id love to go ahead and do my own analysis.

Please tell me some forums/sites which anyone here uses for malware analysis.
Please tell me some other methods which I can use, Honeypot I know is one of them.

Thanks all for reading, please share your thoughts on this.

Go to YouTube and search for eLearnSecurity - Malware Analysis. There's 2 good videos there as well, pretty basic, but cool 

Those videos do begin with a behavioral analysis of the malware. Wouldn't it be better to start off with a static analysis?

Hi Satyr, I am actually in the same boat as you.  I am currently going through the cookbook which is pretty decent.  Surprisingly, the Kindle version is decent, the only negative was having to hunt down the DVD contents, but they were easily obtainable using an SVN client and following the site's instructions.  Another decent piece of the book is the prep.  They go over getting a lab setup, some free tools you can use and even going anonymous when you are visiting the bad sites.  Using tools such as TOR and proxies.

I will certainly check out the sites posted here, those will be helpful.

Good luck!!