Malware Analytics

Catalog description

Malware Analytics is an intermediate course required for students who are majoring in Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations. It is a three-credit hands-on course that teaches principles and practice of malware detection, analysis, and defense. The course begins by introducing the foundations of malware, including history, vulnerability, types, analysis methods, and defenses. It then builds on this foundation by teaching students how to address malware issues using analysis techniques such as reverse engineering and static program analysis, as well as how to use analytic approaches such as automatic malware trace classification and clustering. The course relies extensively on hands-on laboratory activities to help students obtain practical experience in malware analysis and analytics. Through this course, the students will gain concrete understandings on principles and practices of malware analysis and defense.