A Beginner's Guide to Hacking and Malware Development

Prologue

Hello everyone, I am a Python programmer with 8 years of programming experience. I have been interested in the cyber-security field for 16 years, but started out on the black hatting side at 15 years old cracking logins and selling them on forums like Nulled and Cracked. Although I was making only about 150$ per week selling accounts, I hated using other people's tools but since I did not know any programming languages, I didn't even understand how these tools worked or how to create my own. In the hacking world this is called being a "script kiddie" or a "skid."

After being called a "skid" one too many times, I decided I would embark on the wacky, wonderful, frustrating path of learning Python 3. Python is regarded as one of the best programming languages you can learn and is valuable whether you are a white hat, grey hat, or black hat. I mostly toyed around with the language, because I didn't understand all the bits and pieces until my friend sent me a Udemy course from Zaid from zSecurity.

In his class, Zaid walks you through both ethical hacking and Python development by creating some pretty interesting "ethical hacking" programs which includes a backdoor, a key-logger, a port scanner, and a MAC Address changer among others. This is where my love for malware development grew from.

I cannot explain the things that I went on to do from there, I have worked with a few security groups and threat actors over the years, but those are stories I am unable to divulge anymore on. I have furthered my knowledge in Python and expanded to Go, C# (although still learning), and web development languages. I also have gone on to understand hacking on a deeper level and over the years, my fondness for hacking and malware development has grown tremendously.

I hold high respect for the many security groups and even threat actors out there, you would not believe the amount of work they do behind the scenes. It's not as easy as simply pressing a bunch of buttons and stealing passwords and credit cards, and the talent of these individuals is not to be taken lightly.

My purpose of writing this short non-fiction book is to help you get a leg up on learning to hack and code your own malware in whatever language you choose to use. Use this book responsibly, as the person who takes this knowledge must accept full responsibility for their actions whether the outcomes of their endeavors are good or nefarious. I assume no liability for any damage, and encourage you to be smart about what you choose to use this information for.

Best,

dZZy