Malware is distributed through a wide variety of complex channels, utilizing obfuscation and subterfuge to avoid detection. In this course, Malware Analysis: Initial Access Techniques, you’ll learn the skills necessary to identify these stages and get hands-on with the tools to unravel them to extract key indicators of compromise. First, you’ll explore how malware is delivered, identifying commonly abused technologies, and learn about critical mitigations. Next, you’ll get hands-on exploring malicious infrastructure to understand how threat actors can proactively compromise your organization. You will also see how malware command and control works and techniques for identifying this type of communication. Finally, you’ll dive deep into performing malware analysis on a variety of initial access artifacts, such as office documents and PowerShell scripts. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of initial access techniques to continue your journey to become a seasoned malware analyst.
Author Name: Josh Stroschein
Author Description:
Josh is an experienced malware analyst and reverse engineer and has a passion for sharing his knowledge with others. He is a reverse engineer with the FLARE team at Google, where he focuses on tackling the latest threats. Josh is an accomplished trainer, providing training at places such as Ring Zero, BlackHat, Defcon, Toorcon, Hack-In-The-Box, Suricon, and other public and private venues. Josh is also an author on Pluralsight, where he publishes content around malware analysis, reverse engineer… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• How Malware Is Delivered
  35mins
• Identifying Malicious Infrastructure
  31mins
• Analyzing Initial Access Malware
  32mins