Description

Malware Development 2: Advanced Injection and API Hooking

Take your skills in malware development to the next level with Advanced Malware Development Course: Advanced Injection and API Hooking. This advanced course is crafted for security professionals, ethical hackers, and enthusiasts seeking to delve into sophisticated malware techniques, including code injection, API hooking, and bypassing traditional security mechanisms. Gain hands-on experience in building stealthy applications that can evade detection and manipulate process memory, a critical skill in advanced cybersecurity research and reverse engineering.

Course Overview

This course builds upon foundational knowledge of malware development, focusing on advanced concepts like DLL injection, process hollowing, and API hooking techniques used in modern malware. Through practical labs and guided projects, you’ll work directly with APIs and system internals to understand how attackers operate and how to design effective countermeasures.

What You’ll Learn

You will learn first-hand from a Malware Developers’ perspective what windows API functions are commonly used in malware and finally have a deeper understanding of malware so that you will have enhanced skills when doing malware analysis later.

Learning Methodology:

Build programs that simulate Windows Trojans and Reverse Engineer them.

This will make you a better Reverse Engineer and Malware Analyst and also Penetration Tester.

The best way to understand malware is to be a Malware Developer.

Who is This Course For?

This advanced course is designed for:

Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis Students

Programmers who want to know how Malware is created

Students planning on entering Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering, or Penetration Testers as a Career Path

Penetration Testers and Ethical Hackers

Course Highlights

Some topics will contain two parts:  programming and reversing.

In the programming parts we will be writing programs that simulate trojan behavior by using API functions typically found in malware.

In the final section, there will be a Lab Project, where you will combine all the knowledge you learn to create a trojan that can survive a reboot and sniff for a disk encryption password and capture it to a file.

Everything is highly practical.  No boring theory or lectures. More like walk-throughs which you can replicate and follow along.

By the end of this course, you will have the basic skills to better understand how Malware works from the programmers’ point of view. This knowledge and skills are suitable for those aspiring to be Red Teamers. Even if you have no intention of creating malware, the insider knowledge and skills you gain from this course will make you a better security professional.

Also, having practical knowledge of malware development will give you a better understanding of how to reverse engineer malware. By the end of this course, you would have gained a solid foundation for understanding how hackers can exploit windows API to inject malicious code into other processes.

Additional Resources

• Microsoft API Documentation
• Red Team Techniques and Tutorials
• Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering Resources

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