Chapter 1, The Linux Environment and Its Tools, gives a brief description of the Linux environment and its tools, which we will be using throughout the book.

Chapter 2, The ELF Binary Format, helps you learn about every major component of the ELF binary format that is used across Linux and most Unix-flavored operating systems.

Chapter 3, Linux Process Tracing, teaches you to use the ptrace system call to read and write to process memory and inject code.

Chapter 4, ELF Virus Technology – Linux/Unix Viruses, is where you discover the past, present, and future of Linux viruses, how they are engineered, and all of the amazing research that surrounds them.

Chapter 5, Linux Binary Protection, explains the basic internals of ELF binary protection.

Chapter 6, ELF Binary Forensics in Linux, is where you learn to dissect ELF objects in search of viruses, backdoors, and suspicious code injection.

Chapter 7, Process Memory Forensics, shows you how to dissect a process address space in search of malware, backdoors, and suspicious code injection that live in the memory.

Chapter 8, ECFS – Extended Core File Snapshot Technology, is an introduction to ECFS, a new open source product for deep process memory forensics.

Chapter 9, Linux /proc/kcore Analysis, shows how to detect Linux kernel malware through memory analysis with /proc/kcore.