CB3001: Malware Analysis syllabus for Cyber Security 2021 regulation (Professional Elective-III)

Malware Analysis detailed syllabus for Cyber Security (Cyber Security) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Cyber Security students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Cyber Security 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Cyber Security 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to Cyber Security Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of malware analysis is as follows.

Course Objectives:

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Unit I

INTRODUCTIONAND BASIC ANALYSIS
Goals of Malware Analysis, AV Scanning, Hashing, Finding Strings, Packing and Obfuscation, PE file format, Static, Linked Libraries and Functions, Static Analysis tools, Virtual Machines and their usage in malware analysis, Sandboxing, Basic dynamic analysis, Malware execution, Process Monitoring, Viewing processes, Registry snapshots,

Unit II

ADVANCED STATIC ANALYSIS
The Stack, Conditionals, Branching, Rep Instructions, Disassembly, Global and local variables, Arithmetic operations, Loops, Function Call Conventions, C Main Method and Offsets. Portable Executable File Format, The PE File Headers and Sections, IDA Pro, Function analysis, Graphing, The Structure of a Virtual Machine, Analyzing Windows programs, Anti-static analysis techniques, obfuscation, packing, metamorphism, polymorphism.

Unit III

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Unit IV

MALWARE FUNCTIONALITY
Downloaders and Launchers, Backdoors, Credential Stealers, Persistence Mechanisms, Handles, Mutexes, Privilege Escalation, Covert malware launching- Launchers, Process Injection, Process Replacement, Hook Injection, Detours, APC injection

Unit V

ANDROID MALWARE ANALYSIS
Android Malware Analysis: Android architecture, App development cycle, APKTool, APKInspector, Dex2Jar, JD-GUI, Static and Dynamic Analysis, Case studies,

Practicals

1. Experimentation on Initial Infection Vectors and Malware Discovery
2. Implementation on Sandboxing Malware and Gathering Information From Runtime Analysis
3. Implementation on Portable Executable (PE32) File Format
4. Implementation on Executable Metadata and Executable Packers
5. Experimentation on Malware Self – Defense, Compression, and Obfuscation Techniques
6. Experimentation on Malware behaviour analysis
7. Experimentation on analyzing Malicious Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF Documents
8. Experimentation on Mobile malware analysis
9. Experimentation on Packing and Unpacking of malware
10. Experimentation on Rootkit AntiForensics and Covert Channels
11. Experimentation on Modern Rootkit Analysis
12. Experimentation on Malware traffic analysis

Implement of real time applications for the following malware analysis

1. Static analysis of malwares
2. Dynamic analysis of malwares.
3. Classification of malwares based on their behaviour.
4. Usage of tools to classify malware
5. Advanced malware analysis
6. Android malware analysis
7. Applying antivirus tools in various applications
8. Malware report documentation

Course Outcomes:

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Text Books:

1. Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, “Practical Malware Analysis” by No Starch Press, 2012,ISBN: 9781593272906
2. Bill Blunden, “The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System”, Second Edition,Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2009.

Reference Books:

1. Jamie Butler and Greg Hoglund, “Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel” by 2005, Addison-Wesley Professional.
2. Bruce Dang, Alexandre Gazet, Elias Bachaalany, SebastienJosse, “Practical Reverse Engineering: x86, x64, ARM, Windows Kernel, Reversing Tools, and Obfuscation”, 2014.
3. Victor Marak, “Windows Malware Analysis Essentials” Packt Publishing, O’Reilly, 2015.
4. Ken Dunham, Shane Hartman, Manu Quintans, Jose Andre Morales, Tim Strazzere, “Android Malware and Analysis”,CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
5. Windows Malware Analysis Essentials by Victor Marak, Packt Publishing, 2015.

For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Cyber Security 6th Sem, visit Cyber Security 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.

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