Reverse Engineering Malware Training Course – Customize it

• 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 Training course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
• We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Reverse Engineering Malware Training 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 training course in manner understandable to lay audiences.

Reverse Engineering Malware Training Course – Audience/Target Group

Attendees who have found this course especially useful often have responsibilities in the areas of incident response, forensic investigation, information security, threat intelligence, and threat hunting. Course participants have included:

• Individuals who have dealt with incidents involving malware and wanted to learn how to understand key aspects of malicious programs.
• Technologists who have informally experimented with aspects of malware analysis prior to the course and were looking to formalize and expand their expertise in this area.
• Forensic investigators and security practitioners looking to expand their skillsets and learn how to play a pivotal role in the incident response process.

The course begins by covering malware analysis at an introductory level, then quickly progresses to discussing tools and techniques of intermediate complexity. Neither programming experience nor knowledge of assembly is required to benefit from the course. However, you should have a general idea about core programming concepts such as variables, loops, and functions, so you can quickly grasp the relevant concepts in this area. The course spends some time discussing essential aspects of the assembly language, allowing malware analysts to navigate through malicious executables using a disassembler and a debugger.

Reverse Engineering Malware Training Course – Class Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this training course are:

• Have a computer system that matches the stated laptop requirements; some software needs to be installed before students come to class.
• Be familiar with using Windows and Linux operating environments and be able to troubleshoot general OS connectivity and setup issues.
• Be familiar with VMware and be able to import and configure virtual machines.
• Have a general idea about core programming concepts such as variables, loops, and functions in order to quickly grasp the relevant concepts in this area; however, no programming experience is necessary.

Reverse Engineering Malware Training Course – Objectives:

Upon completing this training course, learners will be able to meet these objectives: