New to Malware Analysis - sources for school project?

>tldr;
My question is what are the recommended sources where I could find malwares + analysis or description that would suit my project?
Is there any advice you could provide me with?

Hello,

As part my thesis I would like to focus on analysing malware, preferably some interesting rats and rootkits, really interested in how they hide themselves in the system and how they get to cause further damage.
For this I understand I need some samples and before that …

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