Defenders must fully understand how malicious software works if they hope to stay ahead of the increasingly sophisticated threats facing Apple products today. The Art of Mac Malware: The Guide to Analyzing Malicious Software is a comprehensive handbook to cracking open these malicious programs and seeing what’s inside.

Discover the secrets of nation state backdoors, destructive ransomware, and subversive cryptocurrency miners as you uncover their infection methods, persistence strategies, and insidious capabilities. Then work with and extend foundational reverse-engineering tools to extract and decrypt embedded strings, unpack protected Mach-O malware, and even reconstruct binary code. Next, using a debugger, you’ll execute the malware, instruction by instruction, to discover exactly how it operates. In the book’s final section, you’ll put these lessons into practice by analyzing a complex Mac malware specimen on your own.

Analyzing malware is only half the battle. Detecting malicious code in the first place, is the other essential piece!

Volume I detailed the infection vectors, persistence mechanisms, and internals of Mac malware, providing the reader with comprehensive understanding of, well, what Mac malware "looks like." Now we're ready to discuss exactly how to programmatically detect such malicious code.

The second volume of the "The Art of Mac Malware" is a comprehensive resource that covers the programmatic detection of macOS malware code via behavioral-based heuristics.

Armed with topics and approaches covered in this second volume, Mac malware doesn't stand a chance!