Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis Fundamentals

Beginners' course on reverse engineering and malware analysis

What you'll learn

Flare VM Lab Setup
OS fundamentals
Windows API
Virtual Memory
PE file structure
Static Analysis
Dynamic Analysis
Network Analysis
Memory Analysis
Identifying Standard and Custom Packers
Unpacking Packed Malware
Debugging Malware
Analysing Malware using Ghidra
Dumping memory
and more…

Requirements

Windows PC
Interest in malware analysis or reverse engineering

Description

If you are completely new to reverse engineering and malware analysis, then this course is for you. I will take you from zero to proficient level in reverse engineering and analyzing malware. You will learn using plenty of practical walk-throughs. We will learn the basics first then gradually proceed to more advanced topics. All the needed tools will be introduced and explained. By the end of this course, you will have the fundamentals of malware analysis under your belt to further your studies in this field. Even if you do not intend to take up malware analysis as a career, still the knowledge and skills gained in reverse engineering and analysis would be beneficial to you to reverse software as well.

Everything is highly practical. No boring theory or lectures. More like walk-throughs which you can replicate and follow along. We will use tools like tridnet, bintext, pestudio, cff explorer, regshot, procdot, fakenet, wireshark, process monitor, process hacker, xdbg, Ghidra and more…

Topics include:

Lab Setup
Tools
OS Fundamentals
Virtual Memory and the PE file
Windows Internals
Malware Components
Static analysis
Dynamic Analysis
Network Analysis
Unpacking Standard and Custom packers
Dumping memory
and more…

Who this course is for:

Anyone who has no background on malware analysis and just starting out in this field
Hobbyist who just like to learn how to reverse engineer and analyze malware
Students who like to get started on the career path to become malware analysts
Hackers looking for additional tools and techniques to reverse software