Masterclass: Advanced Malware Hunting

Enterprise administrators, infrastructure architects, security professionals, systems engineers, network administrators, IT professionals, security consultants and other people responsible for implementing network and perimeter security.

To attend this training, you should have a good hands-on experience in administering Windows infrastructure. At least 5-8 years in the field is recommended.

Module 1: What is malware

• Malware History
• Malware Goals
• Types of Malware
• Advanced Persistent Threats
• Indicators of Compromise

Module 2: Introduction to Malware Analysis

• Types of malware analysis
• Goals of malware analysis
• Impact analysis
• Containment and mitigation
• Incident prevention and response playbooks
• Setting up sandbox environment
• Cloud-based malware analysis

Module 3: Static malware analysis

• Executable analysis
• Extracting secrets
• Determining if file is packed or obfuscated
• Fingerprinting the malware
• Pattern matching using YARA

Module 4: Behavioral malware analysis

• Malware detonation
• Sysinternals suite
• Network communication analysis
• Monitoring system events
• Memory dump analysis
• Simulating real environment

Module 5: Malicious non-exe files

• Alternative binaries
• PowerShell scripts
• Office documents
• JScript
• HTML documents
• Living off the land binaries

Module 6: Advanced techniques used by malware

• Malware persistence methods
• Malware stealth techniques
• Covert channel communication
• Domain Generator Algorithms
• Anti-VM and Anti-debugging tricks

Module 7: Defending against malware

• Windows security solutions
• Anti-Virus software
• EDR software
• Principle of least privilege
• Application Whitelisting
• Virtualization
• Network and domain segmentation

Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:

To attend this training, you should have a good hands-on experience in administering Windows infrastructure. At least 5-8 years in the field is recommended.

• After finishing the course, you will be granted a CQURE Certificate of Completion. Please note that after completing the course you will also be eligible to claim CPE points!

Intense exercises:

This course is packed with unique labs exercises! To get more practice we offer three extra weeks of labs online!After the training concludes, you may practice even more and repeat to consolidate newly gained skills and knowledge.

Platform and Technical Requirements:

To participate in the course you need a Stable internet connection. For the best learning experience we also need you to have a webcam, headphones and a microphone. Open RDP port 3391 for the connection to the Lab environment is needed as well. We will setup a secure Zoom classroom for every day of the course – we will send you a safe link to join the conference by e-mail.