GREM: Complete Malware Analysis & Reverse Engineering

Malware analysis is one of the most in-demand and least-taught skills in cybersecurity. This course gives you the complete methodology, toolset, and hands-on technique toanalyze real malware samples from triage to full reverse engineering. The course is structured around the GIAC GREM exam domains and covers everythingyou need to identify, characterize, and write detections for modern malware threats.

YOU WILL START with the PE file format. Every byte of the structure matters: theDOS header, Optional Header, section table, Import Address Table, and how each fieldreveals capability. You will learn to spot packed binaries through entropy analysis,unpack them with x64dbg ud reconstruct IATs withScylla.

FROM THERE you move into assembly. x86 and x64 registers, calling conventions,stack mechanics, XOR decryption loops, shellcode PEB walks, and API ROR-13. You will learn to read disassembly in IDA Pro and Ghidra without writing a single line of code youTHE STATIC ANALYSIS MODULE covers FLIRT signatures, encrypted string tabledecryption with IDAPython, API hash resolution using HashDB, crypto identificationwith FindCrypt (AES, RC4, SHA-256, ChaCha20), and full config extraction workflowsusing pefile and PyCryptoDYNAMIC ANALYSIS walks through the correct tool startup order, ProcMon filterstrategy, Process Hacker RWX memory detection, Regshot diff interpretation,FakeNet-NG C2 simulation,acing.

You will perform acomplete RAT behavioral ato IOC report. THE DEBUGGING MODULE covers all four breakpoint types in x64dbg, ScyllaHideanti-debug bypass, OEP hu capture from WindowsCryptoand BCrypt APIs, logging breakpoints for automated injection tracing, andruntimepatching to bypass anti-analysis checks. WINDOWS INTERNALS covers structure at exactoffsets,the VAD tree, and six process injection techniques with full API sequences: DLLinjection, shellcode injection, process hollowing, process doppelganging,reflectiveDLL loading, and APC injeASS credential theft, COMhijacking, WMI persistench detection methods foreach.

ANTI-ANALYSIS covers contredicates, VM-basedobfuscation with Themida chniques, ETW tampering,fileless malware executiog certutil, mshta, andregsvr32 Squiblydoo. SCRIPT AND DOCUMENT MALWAvba and ViperMonkey, Excel4. 0 XLM macros with xlmdescation layer by layer,.

NET malware with de4dot and dnSpy, Python/PyInstaller extraction with pyinstxtractor,PDF analysis with pdfid. p rtfobj py, and LNK fileswith lnkparse. NETWORK ANALYSIS covers Wireshark display filters for malware traffic, JA3 andJA3S fingerprinting, DGA detection, DNS tunneling, Zeek structured log analysis,Suricata rule writing, anrotocol.

MEMORY FORENSICS covers the full Volatility 3 plugin suite: pslist vs psscan forDKOM-hidden process detecellcode and PEidentification,ldrmodules for reflective DLL detection, modscan for hidden kernel drivers,windows. ssdtfor syscall hook detection, and artifact extraction with procdump, memdump, and dumpfiles. THE FINAL MODULES cover recognition fingerprints for 20+ malware families includingEmotet, TrickBot, LockBitT, RedLine Stealer, CobaltStrike, Meterpreter, Bumblebee, and GuLoader, with complete MITRE ATT&CK mappingand threat intelligence ITOOLS COVERED INCLUDE: IDA Pro, Ghidra, x64dbg, ScyllaHide, Scylla, pestudio,CFF Explorer, Detect-It-Eacker, ProcMon, Regshot,FakeNet-NG, Wireshark, API Monitor, PE-Sieve, HollowsHunter, Volatility 3, dnSpy,de4dot, olevba, ViperMonkner, Mimikatz, and more.

This course prepares you for both the GIAC GREM certification and real-worldmalware analysis engageme a practice scenariomodeledon exam-style questions.