Understanding and Analysing Malware
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Online
This 3-day workshop is designed to give delegates the technical ‘hands-on’ understanding and crucially analysing modern malware. This instructor-led event will combine lectures on the types of malware currently in use on the Internet, how that malware is created and distributed, strategies used for infecting victims, and how malware can be detected and removed. The course also contains many hands-on exercises in which delegates will inspect and use different types of malware, create malware infections in a controlled virtual environment and clean malware from computers.
About this course
The prerequisites for this workshop are attendance of our Security Fundamentals course or equivalent knowledge.
Reviews
Subjects
- Infection
Course programme
Introduction to Malware
- History
- Definitions
- Sources
- Exercise: Building a Sandbox
The Malware Family
- Viruses
- Worms
- Trojans
- Bot Nets
- Rootkits
- Web Exploit Kits
- Ransomware
- Exercise: Rootkit infection
- Exercise: Ransomware Infection
Threats and Exploits
- Threat Intelligence
- Threat & Exploit Sources
- Exploits against the system
- Exercise: Exploiting the operating system
Distribution and Infection
- Distribution Methods and Tools
- Infection Vectors
Testing Scoring and Submission
- Standards, Schemes & Scoring
Operating Systems and Files
- Memory & File Management
System Hardening and Baselining
- Operating Systems & Applications
- Memory and System
Static Analysis
- Basic vs Advanced Analysis
- Tools & Techniques
- Exercise: Malware analysis - Static
Malware Evasion
- How Malware avoids Detection
Malware Discovery Techniques
- How to detect Malware
Dynamic Analysis
- Using Dynamic Analysis Tools
- Sandboxing Malware
- Dynamic Analysis and Reporting
- Exercise: Dynamic Malware Analysis
- Exercise: Memory Analysis
Understanding and Analysing Malware