MALWARE ANALYSIS

Catalog description

This course focuses on the working principles of malicious software, how to detect it, and how to defend against it. The detailed contents include static analysis, dynamic analysis, disassembly tools, malware code analysis and debugging, obfuscation and ransomware analysis, code injection and hooking, malware detection using memory forensics, and malware defense technique. This is a hands-on course with a large amount of practical analysis work using tools. PREREQ: COMPSCI 271