Intro to Malware Analysis

Overview

In this class students will learn the fundamentals of basic malware analysis through static and behavioral analysis of real and exemplar malware.  This hands-on course will walk students through setting up a proper sandboxed environment well equipped for malware analysis.  Students will be exposed to the compilation process that takes human readable code to compiled machine readable code.  Students will be exposed to numerous tools used for malware analysis to examine a variety of malware samples from across many spectrums in the malware analysis spectrum.  These samples will include specifically crafted malware that exhibits malware behaviors up through real world malware used by Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs).

This course includes many hands-on labs for repeated practical demonstration of skills learned.  Students will be given lecture to baseline the core concepts followed by many hands-on labs to practice what is learned.  The course concludes with a capstone lab that combines all the skills and tools learned throughout the class to successfully demonstrate an understanding of conducting basic malware analysis, identify binary obfuscation, and report key findings of interest.