Software Reverse Engineering

Catalog description

This course teaches students the basics of software reverse engineering. Students will be given more advanced exposure to assembly language programming and low level programming as it is necessary for cyber operations. Students will learn about the discipline of software reverse engineering. This discipline provides the ability to deduce the design of a software component, to recover the software specification for the program, discover data and / or data structures used by software, and to aid in the analysis of software via disassembly and/or decompilation. This ability to understand software of unknown origin or software for which source code is unavailable is a critical skill for analyzing malware and auditing of closed source software. Students will complete multiple lab activities in teams related to software reverse engineering in a virtualized environment.