Getting Started Analyzing Malware Infections
Pluralsight
Course Summary
Malware infections are growing at an alarming rate. This course will teach you how to safely analyze malicious links, infected documents, and malicious archives with the focus on gathering indicators of compromise.
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Course Description
Computer virus outbreaks are becoming more complex and use clever deployment tactics that trick people into getting infected, even without their knowledge. Traditional antivirus technologies have a hard time keeping up. There is a need for security analysts that are able to tackle these infections and stop them from infecting other computers. In this course, Getting Started Analyzing Malware Infections, you'll learn how to safely contain and analyze suspicious files and URLs. Next, you learn to extract malicious scripts from documents, deobfuscate them, and extract indicators that lead to other malware components. Finally, you will learn to investigate virus deployment techniques that bypass modern security controls. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and the knowledge to build layered defenses that will disrupt the infection chain at multiple stages protecting your data and your company.
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Course Syllabus
Course Overview- 1m 47s
—Course Overview 1m 47sInvestigating Malware Infections- 29m 47s
—Problem Statement 3m 27s
—Understanding Phishing Tactics 3m 43s
—Indicators of Compromise 2m 59s
—Analyzing a Suspicious Mail 3m 51s
—Setting up an Analysis Environment 2m 38s
—Analyzing Malware Off Network 2m 33s
—Snapshotting 2m 6s
—Safe Handling Procedures 2m 55s
—Safe Handling in Practice 4m 20s
—Summary 1m 10sAnalyzing Malicious Links- 22m 56sDissecting Infected Documents- 30m 59sAnalyzing Malicious Archives- 30m 50sDesigning the Process for Analyzing Malware- 21m 34s
