Reddit reviews The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System

• The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System, 2nd Edition (2012)
  
  This book covers rootkit development, not analysis, on Windows 7 and x86/IA32. It's a must read, if you're interested in rootkits.
  
  
• Rootkits and Bootkits: Reversing Modern Malware and Next Generation Threats (Release date set to january 2019)
  
  While not yet released, it looks very promising. Over the years, Microsoft has continually introduced better protections against rootkits and malware in Windows. Among other things, the book will cover how some of the rootkits/bootkits seen in the wild have bypassed protections such as Secure Boot, kernel-mode signing, Patch Guard and Device Guard.
  
  I'd also recommend having a look at the following books:
  
  
• Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software (2012)
  
  
• Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation 1st Edition (2014)
  
  
• The Art of Memory Forensics: Detecting Malware and Threats in Windows, Linux, and Mac Memory 1st Edition (2014)
  
  
  Also, Windows Internals for both Windows 7 and Windows 10 is a great reference to have laying around.

There's also The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System and Rootkits and Bootkits

Books:
1.amazon.com/Rootkit-Arsenal-Escape-Evasion-Corners/dp/144962636X
2.amazon.com/Art-Memory-Forensics-Detecting-Malware/dp/1118825098
3.nostarch.com/rootkits
Blogs/Forums:
1.0x00sec.org/
2./r/rootkit
3.rootkitanalytics.com/
4.turbochaos.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1
5./r/malware
6./r/reverseengineering
7.r00tkit.me/

https://www.amazon.com/Rootkit-Arsenal-Escape-Evasion-Corners/dp/144962636X/ref=pd_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YAJ72F60HEKG3T78HXHM

this one?

Oh you wanted books. For some reason I thought you wanted things to learn about, like you didn't think it was that easy or something.

The Art of Deception.

Pretty much anything by this guy.

This book gives you an insight to how the good guys go about fixing things once they go bad.

Metasploit is the novice's wet dream, as it's pretty easy to get started with and opens up a world of sophisticated exploits which wouldn't normally be available to someone new to the world of hacking.

Those are some books that might not get listed elsewhere, simply because they don't all literally tell you how to hack, as much as give you some idea as to what hacking means from different perspectives.

Edit: Reposting some of the other guy's books as he seems to think linking to publicly available materials is going to make some person on Reddit the next LulzSec 'mastermind' or something.

Hacking Exposed, Anti-Hacker Toolkit, Practical Malware Analysis, The Rootkit Arsenal, Steal This Computer Book.

You're not going to be a l33t h4x0r just by reading a few books, but you won't not be, either. :D

My recommendations then for self study:

• http://www.amazon.com/The-Rootkit-Arsenal-Evasion-Corners/dp/144962636Xl
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Forensic-Analysis-Toolkit-Edition/dp/0124171575
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Registry-Forensics-Advanced-Forensic/dp/1597495808
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Malware-Rootkits-Botnets-Beginners-McGraw/dp/0071792066
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Reverse-Engineering-Reversing-Obfuscation/dp/1118787315
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Malware-Analysis-Dissecting-Malicious/dp/1593272901
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Rtfm-Red-Team-Field-Manual/dp/1494295504
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/The-IDA-Pro-Book-Disassembler/dp/1593272898
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Malware-Analysts-Cookbook-DVD-Techniques/dp/0470613033
  
  Read all those and you will be in good shape ;)
  EDIT: I hate trying to get reddit to do what I want.

If you really want to learn about Windows malware then you need to understand Windows Internals, reverse engineering, x86 assembly, C++ at the very least.

Here are some books that cover some of this material:
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Malware-Analysis-Hands--Dissecting/dp/1593272901/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468521904&sr=8-1&keywords=practical+malware+analysis

https://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Part-Developer-Reference/dp/0735648735/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1468522022&sr=8-2&keywords=Windows+Internals

https://www.amazon.com/Rootkit-Arsenal-Escape-Evasion-Corners/dp/144962636X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1468522149&sr=8-3&keywords=Rootkits

The books are old and somewhat outdated, but still relevant.