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Specialized Malware: .NET Malware

by Josh Stroschein

This course will teach you how to quickly identify .NET malware families, analyze malicious behavior, and reverse engineer .NET binaries to detect anti-analysis and common obfuscation techniques.

What you'll learn

A significant amount of malware is written in .NET making it crucial to understand and be able to reverse engineer these binaries. This course, Specialized Malware: .NET Malware, will teach you the essential skills and tools to become a .NET reversing wizard! First, you’ll explore .NET fundamentals and learn unique methods for analyzing binaries. Next, you'll dive deep into prevalent code obfuscation techniques and effective methods for reversing them. Finally, you'll trace complex samples to identify key behavior and extract important indicators of compromise. Not only will this course teach you how to reverse engineer .NET binaries, but it will introduce you to a reverse engineering methodology that you can build upon with more complex samples and tools.

About the author

Josh is an experienced malware analyst and reverse engineer and has a passion for sharing his knowledge with others. He is a reverse engineer with the FLARE team at Google, where he focuses on tackling the latest threats. Josh is an accomplished trainer, providing training at places such as Ring Zero, BlackHat, Defcon, Toorcon, Hack-In-The-Box, Suricon, and other public and private venues. Josh is also an author on Pluralsight, where he publishes content around malware analysis, reverse engineer... more

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