Malware Analysis & Reverse Engineering

Summary: The course focuses on training the analyst for finding malware and analyzing it.The course teaches fundamentals of Windows OS from malware forensics perspective.During the 5-day period, all the attendees will analyze multiple malware samples of various categories including RATs, Botnets, Key loggers, APT malware etc.

Student Lab Requirement:

Vmware Workstation 10.X or later/ Fusion 6.0+/ Player 6+ running Windows 7/XP, 100 GB free disk space
Content

1. Overview on current Threat Landscape

• 1.1. Malware Categorization
• 1.2. Cyber Kill Chain
• 1.3. APTs

2. Building Malware Analysis Lab.

3. Windows System Structure (forensics Context)

• 3.1. Processes
• 3.2. Prefetch Files
• 3.3. Browser
• 3.4. Auto runs
• 3.5. Scheduled Tasks
• 3.6. Registry
• 3.7. Windows Artifact Analysis from various locations)
• 3.8. Timeline Analysis
• 3.9. Time stamping

4. Static Analysis

• 4.1. Scanning, Hashing, Fuzzy Hashing
• 4.2. Unpacking
• 4.3. Find Anomalies
• 4.4. Visualization
• 4.5. File Analysis
• 4.6. PE Analysis
• 4.7. Document File Analysis
• 4.8. PDF analysis

5. Dynamic Analysis

• 5.1. Building the lab
• 5.2. Snapshot
• 5.3. Network Interactions
• 5.4. Sandboxes
• 5.5. Sandbox Evasion Techniques

6. Network Artifact Analysis

• 6.1. PCAP analysis
• 6.2. Evidence Extraction from PCAPs
• 6.3. Tracing Malware communications

7. Memory Forensics

• 7.1. Overview
• 7.2. Processes and Threads
• 7.3. Data Structures
• 7.4. Recovering Files
• 7.5. Process Memory
• 7.6. Hooks
• 7.7. Finding Hidden Processes
• 7.8. Memory Acquisition
• 7.9. Finding Malware in memory