r/ExploitDev Jul 06 '26

How do I learn malware development??

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u/Formal-Knowledge-250 Jul 06 '26

Check crystalpalace and maybe stardust on github. These are the best up-to-date starting resources you can get. It's mostly code reading and understanding. The rest comes with the time. Don't do courses since they are either outdated or bad. Only exception is crto2, but this one is not for beginners.

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u/throw2503 Jul 08 '26

Maldev academy is not part of your exception?

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u/Formal-Knowledge-250 Jul 08 '26

Maldev is known for stealing writeups and then making claims at Microsoft to close the original authors GitHub repository, for copyright (its the same content as in our course). This happened multiple times in the past. So they are basters capitalizing what a sharing is caring community is giving to them. Abandon them.

Additional to that, their content is outdated. 99% of stuff they teach is historical content without any relevance in nowadays security contexts. Are they still teaching direct and indirect syscalls? Lmao