What you'll learn

Sophisticated malware routinely defeats analysts who rely on static disassembly alone, hiding imports behind custom hash functions, packing payloads to evade signature detection, and using exception handlers to obscure control flow. In this course, Malware Analysis with IDA Pro, you’ll gain the ability to systematically dismantle these defenses and extract actionable intelligence from even the most hostile binaries. First, you’ll explore advanced obfuscation techniques, including API hashing bypass, binary patching, and original entry point identification in packed samples. Next, you’ll discover dynamic analysis through IDA Pro's integrated debugger capturing live network indicators, tracing exception-driven control flow, extracting decrypted payloads from memory, and analyzing position-independent shellcode. Finally, you’ll learn how to audit binaries for modern threats by locating hidden persistence mechanisms, reconstructing C2 protocols, correlating findings with known threat actor tooling through Lumina and FLIRT, and identifying cryptographic routines using FindCrypt. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of advanced IDA Pro malware analysis needed to confidently reverse engineer sophisticated hostile code and produce actionable threat intelligence from compiled binaries.