I would like to thank Allah the God Almighty, my friend from IT Telkom, Indra Kusuma as a contributor and reviewer, and my boss and partner in Noosc Global for giving a facility for my research. I also want to thank my girlfriend, Eva, for her support and motivation in finishing this book.

I want to give you a list of names of persons to acknowledge as a gratitude for their effort in helping us in writing our book:

Chort Z. Row for the Video in Youtube (Using Cuckoobox and Volatility to analyze APT1 malware) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxGnjTlufAA, and thank you for providing Yara rules for Miniasp3 detection.

A.A. Gede Indra Kusuma from IT Telkom. Thank you for your effort in Malware Lab, and produce some resources for the book.

Jaime Blasco and Alberto Ortega from Alienvault. Thank you for providing Yara rules for APT1 detection.

David Bressler (bostonlink) for the great effort on Cuckooforcanari Project.

Alberto Ortega from Alienvault for his post on http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/hardening-cuckoo-sandbox-against-vm-aware-malware about Hardening Cuckoo Sandbox.

Xavier Mertens (@xme) for CuckooMX Project at http://blog.rootshell.be/2012/06/20/cuckoomx-automating-email-attachments-scanning-with-cuckoo/

All Cuckoo Sandbox Developers and founder: Claudio "nex" Guarnieri, Mark Schloesser, Alessandro "jekil" Tanasi, and Jurriaan Bremer. Thank you very much for the great documentation on http://docs.cuckoosandbox.org/en/latest/.

Mila Parkour from http://contagiodump.blogspot.com. Thank you for providing a lot of information about malware samples.

http://virusshare.com/ and http://virusshare.com/ for providing us APT1 malware sample.

Iqbal Muhardianto is a security enthusiast and he is working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. He loves breaking things apart just to know how it works. In his computer learning career, he first started with learning MS-DOS and some C programming, after being a System admin, Network Admin, and now he is a IT Security Administrator with some skills in Linux, Windows, Network, SIEM, Malware Analysis, and Pentesting.

He currently lives Norway and works as an IT Staff in the Indonesia Embassy in Oslo.