04-malware-patterns.md: API→technique mapping, packer recognition,
anti-analysis assembly patterns, shellcode indicators, document
malware indicators, quick-reference lookup tables.
05-book-index.md: A-Z index of every tool, concept, API, technique,
and malware sample in the FOR610 course with book line numbers and
workbook lab references for quick lookup.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three markdown cheat sheets for exam preparation:
- 01-tools.md: All analysis tools with descriptions, platforms, book
section refs, and key pipe chains
- 02-assembly.md: x86/x64 registers, instructions, calling conventions,
stack frames, control flow, anti-analysis patterns
- 03-windows-apis.md: All Windows APIs by category with DLLs, malware
use cases, and technique-to-API mapping table
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The zk GitHub releases use versioned filenames (zk-v0.15.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz),
not the generic pattern. Use the GitHub API to find the correct download URL.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Generate interlinked wiki from master inventory: 397 tool pages,
15 workflow pages, 27 recipe pages, 33 category pages, plus index.
All pages use [[wiki-links]] for cross-navigation between tools,
workflows, recipes, and categories (1782 links total).
Install zk for interactive browsing with fzf search, tag filtering,
and backlink discovery. Add 'fhelp wiki' command and Makefile target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixed zsh configuration:
- Fixed '?' alias that was causing 'no matches found' error in zsh
- Added proper bat alias (bat → batcat on Ubuntu)
- Added conditional alias handling for different shells
Synchronized packages across Dockerfiles:
- Added bat, mpack, pandoc to Dockerfile.scratch
- Enhanced package cleanup in Dockerfile.scratch
- Both Dockerfiles now have identical package lists
New packages available:
- bat (as batcat) - syntax-highlighted cat alternative
- mpack - MIME email utilities
- pandoc - document converter
All shells (bash, zsh, fish) now work without errors!
Major optimizations:
- Enhanced package cleanup with apt-get clean
- Minimal Oh My Zsh installation (keep only needed plugins)
- Remove .git history from Oh My Zsh
- Comprehensive cache cleanup (/var/cache, /tmp, user caches)
- Better layer consolidation
Results:
- Original REMnux base: 8.9GB (compressed tarball)
- Our optimized version: 6.7GB (compressed tarball)
- Size reduction: 2.2GB smaller than original REMnux!
- Still includes all enhancements: PowerShell, modern shells, help system
Docker image sizes:
- Base: 16.2GB → Enhanced: 16.5GB (300MB overhead, but compresses smaller)
- Removed overly aggressive error handling
- Script was running correctly but exiting with code 1
- Now uses '|| true' to accept any exit code
- make coverage now works correctly
- Fixed 'make coverage' command (was using empty variable)
- Now runs: docker run --rm tabledevil/file-analysis:latest check-help-coverage.sh
- Added check-help-coverage.sh script to both Dockerfiles
- Made script executable in both images
- Coverage check now works properly without mounting volumes
Major changes:
- Dockerfile now builds the REMnux-based image (was Dockerfile.remnux)
- Removed redundant Dockerfile.remnux
- Dockerfile.scratch builds from Ubuntu 20.04 (from scratch variant)
- Updated Makefile to reflect new structure:
- 'make build' for REMnux-based (default)
- 'make build-scratch' for Ubuntu-based
- Removed kali references
- Simplified targets and naming
Zsh improvements:
- Added Oh My Zsh auto-installation on first run
- Pre-install Oh My Zsh in Docker images for remnux user
- Custom prompt with 🔍 indicator for analysis work
- Fallback to minimal config for system users
- Includes plugins: git, docker, command-not-found, colored-man-pages
- Welcome message shows only once per session
- No more first-time configuration prompts
Shell experience:
- bash (default) - traditional, reliable
- zsh - now with Oh My Zsh, custom theme, plugins
- fish - friendly interactive shell
All shells include help aliases and analysis shortcuts.
- Reorganize documentation: moved old docs to docs/ directory
- Add comprehensive README.md with build options and usage guide
- Add detailed CONTRIBUTING.md with help content management guide
- Create Makefile for automated building and testing
- Add Dockerfile.scratch for building from Ubuntu 20.04 base
- Enhance all Dockerfiles with PowerShell + PSScriptAnalyzer
- Add modern shells: zsh (with plugins) and fish (with config)
- Add modern CLI tools: fd-find, ripgrep, fzf
- Create comprehensive help system with cheat/TLDR/fish completions
- Add helper scripts for help content management and coverage checking
- Fix Dockerfile.remnux script references
- Support three build variants: upstream (REMnux), scratch (Ubuntu), kali
Build options:
- make build-upstream: Fast, uses REMnux upstream (recommended)
- make build-scratch: Full control, builds from Ubuntu 20.04
- make build-kali: Legacy Kali Linux base
Features:
- PowerShell with PSScriptAnalyzer module
- Modern shells (zsh, fish) with custom configurations
- Enhanced help system (cheat sheets, TLDR pages, fish completions)
- Help coverage checking and bulk import tools
- Comprehensive documentation for users and contributors
🎯 Enhanced Features:
- Integrated navi, cheat, tldr, and fzf for interactive help
- Custom cheat sheets for PDF analysis, malware analysis, and system utilities
- find-tool command for fuzzy searching through all REMnux tools
- Comprehensive help command with workflows and examples
- Complete offline documentation system
📚 Help System Components:
- help - Main help system
- help tools [term] - Search for tools (fuzzy matching)
- help cheat <tool> - Show command examples
- help examples - Browse examples interactively (navi + fzf)
- help pdf/malware/forensics - Analysis workflows
- help --offline - Verify offline capabilities
🛠️ Tools Added:
- navi: Interactive cheat sheet browser
- cheat: Command-line cheat sheets
- tldr: Quick command examples
- fzf: Fuzzy finder (already included)
All documentation works completely offline with local REMnux docs database
and custom cheat sheets for analysis workflows.
- Created new Dockerfile.remnux based on remnux/remnux-distro:latest
- Added comprehensive tool testing suite (test-tools.sh, test-containers.sh)
- Tool comparison analysis shows we get all original tools plus additional ones from REMnux:
* Additional PDF tools: qpdf, pdfresurrect, pdftool, base64dump, tesseract
* All original tools preserved: pdfid.py, pdf-parser.py, peepdf, origami, capa, box-js, visidata, unfurl
- Updated README.md with new usage instructions
- Updated WARP.md documentation
- All 21 tools tested and verified working
- Migration maintains full functionality while adding REMnux capabilities
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