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Getting Started Analyzing Malware Infections
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.
What you'll learn
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.
Table of contents
- 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 10s
About the author
Cristian is a Information Security Professional with experience in supply chain, manufacturing, gaming, and entertainment sectors for Fortune 500 companies. He has provided expertise in incident response cases by performing forensic investigations, malware analysis, and elaborating mitigation plans against complex cyber attacks.
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