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Specialized Malware: Packing and Obfuscation
Malware developers commonly use obfuscation to conceal the functionality of their malware, making it harder to analyze and defeat. This course will teach you how to overcome common obfuscation techniques.
What you'll learn
Malware frequently has built-in defenses against analysis designed to frustrate efforts to understand its functionality and design defenses.. In this course, Specialized Malware: Packing and Obfuscation, you’ll learn to overcome common malware obfuscation techniques. First, you’ll explore packing and how to extract packed malware. Next, you’ll discover how to find imported libraries and strings concealed within an executable. Finally, you’ll learn how to defeat common anti-disassembly processes. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of packing and unpacking needed to analyze malware employing these techniques.
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About the author
Howard Poston is a freelance copywriter, course developer, and consultant. He created over 20 online courses and authored Python for Cybersecurity and Blockchain Security from the Bottom Up.