Security expert Lenny Zeltser has released an Ubuntu distribution designed for reverse engineering malware.

"The OS, called REMnux, includes a slew of popular malware-analysis, network monitoring and memory forensics tools [that] comprise a very powerful environment for taking apart malicious code," writes threatpost's Dennis Fisher.

"The OS includes a virtual treasure chest of reverse-engineering and malware-analysis tools," Fisher writes. "REMNux has three separate tools for analyzing Flash-specific malware, including SWFtools, Flasm and Flare, as well as several applications for analyzing malicious PDFs, including Didier Stevens' analysis tools."

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