5 days virtual course

Masterclass: Advanced Malware Hunting [AMH]

This course teaches the ways of identifying how malware looks like, what malicious activities you should look out for and the ways of removing it. You will also learn how to implement and manage preventive solutions both for small and medium-sized enterprises and organizations.

AMH

During this course you learn what makes piece of code malicious, go through historic examples and get familiar with different kinds of malware and how to identify various cases. Once we have sufficient understanding of techniques and capabilities of malware, we will start system and network hardening – you will implement security in depth solutions, such as whitelisting or virtualization, in order to protect assets.

To get more practice we offer three extra weeks of labs online!

Target audience

Enterprise administrators, infrastructure architects, security professionals, systems engineers, network administrators, IT professionals, security consultants and other people responsible for implementing network and perimeter security.

Prerecuisites

To attend this training, you should have a good hands-on experience in administering Windows infrastructure. At least 8 years in the field is

recommended.

Content

Module 1: What is malware

Malware History
Malware Goals
Types of Malware
Advanced Persistent Threats
Indicators of Compromise
Module 2: Introduction to Malware Analysis
Types of malware analysis
Goals of malware analysis
Impact analysis
Containment and mitigation
Incident prevention and response playbooks
Setting up sandbox environment
Cloud-based malware analysis

Module 3: Static malware analysis

Executable analysis
Extracting secrets
Determining if file is packed or obfuscated
Fingerprinting the malware
Pattern matching using YARA

Module 4: Behavioral malware analysis

Malware detonation
Sysinternals suite
Network communication

Module 5: Malicious non-exe files

Alternative binaries
PowerShell scripts
Office documents
JScript
HTML documents
Living off the land binaries

Module 6: Advanced techniques used by malware

Malware persistence methods
Malware stealth techniques
Covert channel communication
Domain Generator Algorithms
Anti-VM and Anti-debugging tricks

Module 7: Defending against malware

Windows security solutions
Anti-Virus software
EDR software
Principle of least privilege
Application Whitelisting
Virtualization
Network and domain segmentation

Materials

Unique tools, over 150 pages of exercises and presentation slides with notes.

CPE Points (Continuing professional education)

It will be possible to earn CPE points after completing this course.

Form

Virtual delivery with live trainer

Before you participate on a virtual course, we always try to arrange a 15 - 20 minute test session with the participants a week before to make sure that everyone is capable to attend the Masterclass. Below you will find the technical requirements for connecting to the virtual training:

A computer with a stable internet connection (preferably Windows or Mac OS)
Permissions for outgoing RDP connections to external servers (to our lab environment) – port 3389
A headset (headphones + microphone)
Webcam (built-in or plug-in)
Additional monitor will be helpful but it’s not required

Instructor

Paula Januszkiewicz er verdenskendt som sikkerhedsekspert. Paula elsker at lave penetrationstests, IT-sikkerhedsevalueringer, og hendes motto er: "harden 'em all"! Enterprise Security MVP og -underviser (MCT) og Microsoft Security Trusted Advisor.

Do you have any questions please contact

Malene Kjærsgaard
Konsulent
+45 72202523

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