Who should take the Malware Analysis Course?
A malware analyst, also known as a reverse engineer or a threat researcher, is a cybersecurity professional specializing in the analysis of malicious software (malware). Their primary role is to dissect, understand, and document the behavior, capabilities, and impact of different types of malware.
Youtube is a great platform for all sorts of learning. In this post, we will tell you the best Youtube videos you can use to learn malware analysis course for free from scratch. All these courses are very detailed and if you understand all the concepts well, you may land into a very rewarding career of cyber security.
1. Malware Analysis Bootcamp By HackerSploit
This is a free full length Malware Analysis course. The following topics are covered in detail:
- Introduction to malware analysis.
- Setting up our environment.
- Static analysis.
- Introduction to Assembly language.
- Code Analysis.
- Dynamic Analysis.
- Behavioural Analysis.
2. Practical Malware Analysis Walkthrough by Guided Hacking
Practical Malware Analysis is one of the best books for learning malware analysis. In this video series Ismael Valasquez will walk you through some of the exercises. These videos use tools from the book, modern day tools you should use instead are: PEStudio, PE-bear, Detect it Easy & Ida Pro.
3. Malware Analysis In 5+ Hours Full Course by Husky Hacks
The full course is 9 hours of high quality videos, practical labs, and challenges to learn the art and science of malware analysis.
- 00:00–05:55 – Intro & Whoami
- 05:55–08:26 – Download VirtualBox
- 08:26–10:26 – Download Windows 10
- 10:26–18:44 – Set Up Windows 10 VM
- 18:44–19:55 – Download REMnux
- 19:55–23:36 – Import REMnux
- 23:36–30:55 – Download and Install FLAREVM
- 30:55–38:22 – Set up the Analysis Network
- 38:22–51:38 – Set up INetSim
- 51:38–55:39 – Course Lab Repo & Lab Orientation
- 55:39–57:07 – Snapshot Before First Detonation
- 57:07– 1:03:06 – First Detonation
- 1:03:06–1:08:12 – Tool Troubleshooting
- 1:08:12–1:22:27 – Safety Always! Malware Handling & Safe Sourcing
- 1:22:27–2:13:20 – Basic Static Analysis
- 2:13:20–3:38:53 – Basic Dynamic Analysis
- 3:38:53–3:40:52 – INTERMISSION!
- 3:40:52–4:00:58 – Challenge 1 SillyPutty Intro & Walkthrough
- 4:00:58–4:58:07 – Advanced Static Analysis
- 4:58:07–5:28:56 – Advanced Dynamic Analysis
- 5:28:56–5:50:52 – Challenge 2 SikoMode Intro & Walkthrough
4. Advanced Malware Analysis by Packtpub
5. Five Awesome Tools to perform Behavioural Analysis of Malware
This course demonstrates the following malware analysis tools to use for behavioural analysis.
- Process Hacker (http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/)
- 2. Process Monitor (ProcMon) (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s…)
- 3. CaptureBat (https://www.honeynet.org/node/315)
- 4. Microsoft Network Monitor (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/n…)
- 5. Autoruns (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s…)