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Practical Malware Analysis for Beginners

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Practical Malware Analysis for Beginners: a self-paced PACI course with 44 lessons in 6 sections and a quiz after each section.

  • Cybersecurity & IT
  • English language
  • Beginner
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What you’ll learn

  • Section. 1 Introduction
  • Section. 2 Lab Setup
  • Section. 3 Basic Static malware Analysis
  • Sectionn. 4 Dynamic Malware Analysis
  • Section. 5 Sandboxing Malware

About this course

Practical Malware Analysis for Beginners is a self-paced recorded course from the Punjab Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Initiative (PACI). It has 44 lessons in 6 sections (22 video lessons, 6 quizzes, 16 reading / resource lessons). What the course covers: - Section. 1 Introduction - Section. 2 Lab Setup - Section. 3 Basic Static malware Analysis - Sectionn. 4 Dynamic Malware Analysis - Section. 5 Sandboxing Malware

Course content

6 modules · 44 lessons

01Section. 1 Introduction5 lessons
  • 1. Introduction to Course
  • 2. Who AM I
  • 3. Introduction to Malware Analysis
  • Introduction to Malware Analysis
  • Quiz 1
02Section. 2 Lab Setup7 lessons
  • 4. Lab Setup Instructions
  • 5. Installing Windows VM on Vmware
  • 6. Installing Flare VM
  • 7. Installing Kali Linux on Vmware
  • Installing Kali Linux on Vmware
  • Lab Instructions
  • Quiz 2
03Section. 3 Basic Static malware Analysis14 lessons
  • 8. Static Malware Anlaysis and Checking File types
  • 9. Analysing Malware with Hashes
  • 10. Strings Analysis
  • 11. Understanding File Structure
  • 12. File Dependencies and Imports
  • 13. Analysing the resources section
  • 14. Packing and Obfuscation
  • Analysing Malware with Hashes
  • Analysing the resources section
  • File Dependencies and Imports
  • Packing and Obfuscation
  • Understanding+File+Structure (1)
  • Understanding+File+Structure (3)
  • Quiz 3
04Sectionn. 4 Dynamic Malware Analysis14 lessons
  • 15. Intro to Dynamic Malware Analysis
  • 16. Process Monitoring
  • 17. Registry and File Monitoring
  • 18. Network Monitoring
  • 19. Persistence management
  • 20. Tying it all together
  • 21. Lets Defend Example 1 - Walkthrough
  • Intro to Dynamic Malware Anlaysis
  • Network Monitoring
  • persistance Management
  • Process Monitoring
  • Registry and File Monitoring
  • Tying it all together
  • Quiz 4
05Section. 5 Sandboxing Malware3 lessons
  • 22. Online Malware Analysis through Any Run
  • Sandboxing Malware
  • Quiz 5
06Final Exam1 lessons
  • Final Exam

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Punjab Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Initiative

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PACI (Punjab Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Initiative) publishes recorded courses in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, web development and data skills.

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