Yesterday I stumbled across yet another “hacking” site. My curiosity motivated me to mirror the site content and go through all the files. Most of them were books and tutorials. After I finished reviewing some of them I realised that I hadn’t include any book reviews in this blog so far and that may be it is time to include some.

I’m starting with Rafay Baloch’s ebook – “An Introduction To Keyloggers, RATS And Malware”.
Rafay Baloch is a young Pakistani man who describes himself as an ethical hacker. He wrote several documents including “Beginners guide to Ethical Hacking” (he selling it for 20 USD). “An Introduction To Keyloggers, RATS And Malware” was published as free to download. Here is my review of this e-“book”.

“An Introduction To Keyloggers, RATS And Malware” is a very short reference of tools (keyloggers, RATs, antivirus software etc.) that the author found efficient according to his experience and standards. The document includes “installation notes” for some of the tools. Here and there you can find very shallow descriptions of basic malware principles – mainly term definitions. The first thing to notice is the “user friendly” orientated selection for the tools and obvious Windows emphasis. The lack of good technical information was a bit distressing for me and left me with impression that the book is targeting script kiddies. Basically I do not regret going through the entire document (75 pages long). After all it motivated my decision to include book reviews in this blog. It reminded me as well for an old DIY project of mine – make my own USB hardware keylogger ;).

In a scale from 1 to 5 (where 5 is the highest positive rating):

Technical details: 1
Writing style: -1
One word description: avoid
Overall feeling: [thumbs down]