Awesome Malware Datasets

   

Contents

• Online Malware Sharing Platforms
• Based on Operating System
  • Android
  • Linux
  • Windows
• Modern/Advanced Malware
  • Packed Malware
  • APT
  • Evasive Malware
  • Fileless Malware
  • Metamorphic Malware
  • Polymorphic Malware
  • Rootkit
• Malware Network Traffic
• My Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing
• Contributors

Online Malware Sharing Platforms

• Contagio - Contagio is a collection of the historic malware samples, threats, observations, and analyses.
• MalShare - The MalShare Project is a collaborative effort to create a community driven public malware repository that works to build additional tools to benefit the security community at large.
• MalwareBazaar - MalwareBazaar is a platform from abuse.ch and Spamhaus, dedicated to sharing malware samples with the infosec community, antivirus vendors, and threat intelligence providers.
• The Malware Museum - The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers.
• TheZoo - theZoo is a project created to make the possibility of malware analysis open and available to the public.
• Virus Samples - Virus Samples collection of actual malicious software files. These platforms are generally used by cybersecurity researchers, analysts, and professionals for specific purposes, not for the general public to download and interact with.
• VirusShare - VirusShare.com is a repository of malware samples to provide security researchers, incident responders, forensic analysts, and the morbidly curious access to samples of live malicious code.
• VirusSign - The malware database and sample repository, serving as a core resource for EDR, antivirus, anti-malware, and other cybersecurity products.
• VX Underground - VX Underground is a prominent educational website and online repository dedicated to malware and cybersecurity. It's widely known for its extensive collection of malware samples, source code, and related research papers.
• VXvault - VXvault is a threat intelligence platform that specializes in the collection and analysis of malware samples, indicators of compromise (IoCs), and associated threat data.

Based on Operating System

Android

• CICAndMal2017 - CICAndMal2017 is a publicly available Android malware dataset created by the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC) at the University of New Brunswick (UNB).
• Android Malware Samples by MalwareSamples - Android Malware Samples

Linux

• Linux Malware Samples by MalwareSamples - Linux Malware Sample Archive including various types of malicious ELF binaries and viruses.

Windows

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Modern/Advanced Malware Dataset

Packed Malware

• Dataset of Packed PE files by packing-box - Dataset of packed PE samples.

Fileless Malware Dataset

Rootkit Malware Dataset

Bootkit Malware Dataset

Metamorphic Malware Dataset

Polymorphic Malware Dataset

APT Malware Dataset

• APT Malware Dataset - APT Malware Dataset Containing over 3,500 State-Sponsored Malware Samples

Evasive Malware Dataset

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Malware Network Traffic

• Malrec Dataset - The Malrec Dataset is a significant and highly specialized malware dataset that offers a unique approach to malware analysis. Developed through a collaboration between NYU, Georgia Tech, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, its core innovation lies in its method of data collection.
• malware-traffic-analysis.net - malware-traffic-analysis.net is a highly regarded and specialized website dedicated to sharing packet capture (PCAP) files and malware samples.

You can access Benign Dataset via this link.

My Other Awesome Lists

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Contributing

Contributions of any kind welcome, just follow the guidelines!

Contributors

Thanks goes to these contributors!

License

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