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Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security

Static analysis lab: reviewing PE headers, strings and imports of suspicious executables

CYB506 · Malware Analysis — Week 6 of 16

CourseCYB506
Week6 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Static analysis lab: reviewing PE headers, strings and imports of suspicious executables

  1. Malware analysis tools to perform static and dynamic analysis of suspicious executables

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Implement malware analysis tools to perform static and dynamic analysis of suspicious executables.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: implement malware analysis tools to perform static and dynamic analysis of suspicious executables.

Study materials

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Course plan
  • Week 1: Types of malware: viruses, worms, ransomware, trojans, spyw…
  • Week 2: Infection methods (phishing, malicious attachments, drive-b…
  • Week 3: Malware identification: signature-based, heuristic and beha…
  • Week 4: Challenges in detection: obfuscation, packing, polymorphic …
  • Week 5: Principles of malware analysis: x86 architecture and assemb…
  • Week 6: Static analysis lab: reviewing PE headers, strings and impo…
  • Week 7: Dynamic analysis lab: running samples in a sandboxed VM and…
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Reverse engineering lab: disassembly with IDA Free/Pro and …
  • Week 10: Protection and recovery: firewalls, antivirus, IDS/IPS, end…
  • Week 11: Containment (segmentation, access control, patch management…
  • Week 12: Applying Malware Analysis in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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