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C\C++ programming or Windows programming? - hack3rcon - Aug 27, 2016
Hello.
I like to use C\C++ for coding malicious program and I like to learn some techniques like create processes, Inject my program to files and... But can I find any C\C++ book that explain these techniques or I must find a book about Windows programming?
Thank you.
* - Dostoevsky - Aug 27, 2016
If you want to write Windows malware, you'll be working with the Windows API (and, for real malware, most definitely the NTAPI). These are both C so you may as well learn C and then learn Windows programming specifically (there's a book that people consider out-of-date now but is still relatively relevant - "Rootkits: Subverting the Kernel" - here: http://www.lcis.com.tw/paper_store/paper_store/2014712162226539T-201412413820296.pdf). There's LOTs of books for Windows programming, just do some googling.
Some basic resources:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff818516(v=vs.85).aspx - often just googling a Windows API function name will bring up the MSDN page for it (which, using navigation, can lead back to this link)
https://undocumented.ntinternals.net/ - the documentation is relatively minimal and assumes you're not a moron.
I've kept this relatively brief since 90% of programming is intuition.