Reverse Engineering Malware Training

Commitment 5 Days, 7-8 hours a day.
Language English
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Delivery Options Instructor-Led Onsite, Online, and Classroom Live

COURSE OVERVIEW

Learn how to perform static malware analysis with this Reverse Engineering Malware Training

This Reverse Engineering Malware Training course introduces the concept of malware, how they function, their types, and how they are extensively used in Advanced Persistent attacks (APTs) to siphon off critical business information from an organization on regular basis. We start off with the concepts of Assembly language, PE Header, and disassembling v/s debugging with advanced debugging features. We also perform RE to analyze an application dissecting it to the level where malware code is present.

We provide practice malware lab setup consisting of virtual machines and a sandbox environment. We use debuggers such as IDA and Ollydbg, disassemblers, and various monitoring tools to perform analysis to track the movement of the malware across the virtual network. We will also delve deep into advanced techniques such as analyzing shellcodes, PowerShell malware, malicious documents, anti-virus evasion, and so on. Further, we take a peek at different anti-reversing, anti-emulation, and anti-debugging techniques used by advanced malware

WHAT'S INCLUDED?
  • 5 days of Reverse Engineering Malware Training with an expert instructor
  • Reverse Engineering Malware Electronic Course Guide
  • Certificate of Completion
  • 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this Reverse Engineering Malware Training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives:

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  • We can adapt this Reverse Engineering Malware Training course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
  • If you are familiar with some aspects of this Reverse Engineering Malware course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
  • We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Reverse Engineering Malware around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
  • If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Reverse Engineering Malware course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.
AUDIENCE/TARGET GROUP

The target audience for this Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis course:

  • Any individual looking forward to understanding Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis
CLASS PREREQUISITES

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Reverse Engineering Malware course are:

  • Be familiar with using Windows and Linux operating environments.

COURSE SYLLABUS

DAY 1: INTRODUCTION TO MALWARE ANALYSIS AND REVERSE ENGINEERING

Day one focuses on the fundamental knowledge required for malware analysis and reverse engineering. This day is designed to build the critical skills required to proceed further into deeper discussions on reversing. You will also train on special-purpose reversing debuggers and disassemblers. Lab exercises will focus on the functionality of various reversing tools and basic static and dynamic analysis processes.

  • Basic static and dynamic analysis
  • Reverse engineering concepts and legality
  • Machine code
  • Assembly language
  • System- and code-level reversing
  • Assembly basics (registers, operands, instructions)
  • Fundamentals of reverse engineering tools (IDA Pro, Radare2)
  • Reverse Engineering Malware Training
DAY 2: STATIC AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS

Day two encompasses a deep discussion with hands-on content for reversing Windows binaries. Key concepts include identifying code paths, and control functions, and developing a general understanding of the code to be analyzed. Debugging concepts are introduced and practiced in hands-on lab exercises.

  • Recognizing C Code constructs in assembly
  • Windows API
  • Windows Registry
  • Network APIs
  • DLLs
  • Processes, threads, and services
  • Debugging process (stepping, breakpoints, modifying execution)
  • Kernel debugging
  • Debugging tools
DAY 3: ANALYZING MALWARE FUNCTIONALITY AND BEHAVIOR

Day three includes detailed coverage of reverse engineering malware. The focus is on live malware reversing using examples of viruses, Trojans, and rootkits collected from the wild. Reverse Engineering Malware Training

  • Understanding common malware types and functionality
  • Process injection and replacement
  • DLL injection
  • Direct, hook, and APC injection and other malware launching techniques
  • Registry persistence
  • Svchost.exe
  • Trojanized system binaries
  • DLL load order hijacking
  • Malware network behavior analysis
  • Kernel mode rootkits (SSDT hooking, interrupts)
  • User mode rootkits
DAY 4: ANTI-REVERSING TECHNIQUES

Day four works with various anti-reversing techniques that software developers and malware writers put in place to make reverse engineering more difficult.

  • Basic anti-reversing strategies
  • Anti-disassembly
  • Detecting debuggers
  • Detecting VM presence
  • Analyzing packed executables
  • Popular packers (UPX, PECompact, ASPack, etc.)
  • Simple obfuscation techniques (XOR swap, junk code, etc.)
  • Obscuring through data flow and control flow
  • Constant unfolding
  • Deobfuscation tools
  • Base64 and other encoding schemes
  • Common ciphers and encoding schemes
  • Reversing ransomware
DAY 5: ADVANCED REVERSING TOPICS & CREA EXAM

Day five covers advanced reversing topics as well as the CREA exam. The day ends with you taking the CREA exam.

  • Recognizing C++ binaries
  • Identifying constructors and destructors
  • RTTI
  • 64-bit architecture
  • WoW64
  • 64-bit analysis
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