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Specialized Malware: .NET Malware

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.

Josh Stroschein - Pluralsight course - Specialized Malware: .NET Malware
by Josh Stroschein

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.

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About the author

Josh Stroschein - Pluralsight course - Specialized Malware: .NET Malware
Josh Stroschein

Dr. Josh Stroschein is an Assistant Professor at Dakota State University where he teaches malware analysis, software exploitation, reverse engineering, and penetration testing. Josh also works as a malware analyst for Bromium, an end-point security company and is the Director of Training for the Open Information Security Foundation (OISF).

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