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Master Malware Analysis From Scratch.

A rigorous 50-hour, hands-on training programme that takes you from understanding your first PE header to writing YARA rules and dissecting memory dumps. Built for people who want to do the work, not just watch it.

50h
Live Training
8
Modules
20+
Hands-on Labs
15+
Industry Tools
malware-lab ~ analysis
analyst@lab:~$ sha256sum suspicious.exe
a3f2b8c1...e9d04f suspicious.exe
analyst@lab:~$ pestudio suspicious.exe
[*] PE32 executable, 5 sections
[!] Suspicious imports: VirtualAllocEx, WriteProcessMemory
[!] Packed: UPX detected — entropy 7.82
analyst@lab:~$ yara -r custom_rules/ suspicious.exe
[MATCH] trojan_backdoor_gen1
Ready for dynamic analysis ▮
Next Batch

CISSP Batch 56 Starting 28 June 2026

50+Hours of Content
20+Lab Exercises
15+Tools Covered
8Core Modules
100%Hands-On
Who Should Enrol

Built for People Who Protect Systems

Whether you are just getting started in security or already working in a SOC, this programme meets you where you are and pushes you further than you expected.

SOC Analysts

Move beyond alert triage. Learn to pull apart the binaries triggering your SIEM rules and understand what they actually do on a compromised host.

Incident Responders

Sharpen your ability to examine artefacts from breaches — memory dumps, suspicious executables, persistence mechanisms — with confidence and speed.

Security Engineers

Understand the adversary's tools at a binary level so you can build detections, write signatures, and harden the environments you manage.

Career Switchers

Coming from IT or development? This structured path gives you a practical foundation in malware analysis without assuming prior reverse engineering experience.

Why This Skill Matters

Malware Analysis Is the Backbone of Modern Cyber Defence

Every ransomware negotiation, every breach investigation, every threat intelligence report traces back to someone who could look at a binary and understand what it does. That skill set is in short supply — and growing demand.

The Talent Gap Is Real

Organisations across India and globally are struggling to find analysts who can go beyond running automated scans. Security teams need people who understand PE headers, can trace C2 callbacks in Wireshark, and write YARA rules that catch malware variants — not just exact hashes.

From Reactive to Proactive

Most security teams spend their time reacting to alerts. Malware analysis training shifts that dynamic. When you understand how adversaries build and deploy their tools, you start anticipating their next move instead of chasing their last one.

Career Acceleration

Malware analysis is one of the fastest routes into specialised cybersecurity roles. SOC analysts who can reverse engineer binaries get promoted faster. Incident responders who write professional analysis reports get noticed. The skills taught in this programme open doors across the security industry.

4.7MGlobal Cybersecurity Workforce Gap
40%Malware Involved in Reported Breaches
₹8–25LAnalyst Salary Range in India
300%Rise in Ransomware Since 2020

The talent gap isn't closing. Every day you wait is a day someone else fills that senior analyst role.

4.7M unfilled cybersecurity roles globally. Analysts who can reverse binaries are among the hardest to find.

Start Building That Skillset
Full Curriculum

8 Modules. 50 Hours. Every Skill You Need.

Each module combines focused instruction with lab work. You will analyse real samples, use professional tools, and build your own detection rules by the end.

01

Introduction to Malware & the Threat Landscape

6 hoursFoundations & Context
02

Malware Types & Characteristics

6 hoursClassification & Case Studies
03

Malware Analysis Fundamentals

7 hoursLab Setup & Core Skills
04

Static Malware Analysis

8 hoursDeep Dive into Binaries
05

Dynamic Malware Analysis

8 hoursRuntime Behaviour Monitoring
06

Memory Forensics & Advanced Techniques

6 hoursBeyond the Disk
07

Malware Detection & Defence

6 hoursBuilding Defensive Capability
08

Legal, Ethical & Professional Considerations

3 hoursResponsible Practice

8 modules. 50 hours. Every technique — from PE headers to memory dumps.

The same progression used by threat intelligence teams at leading security operations centres.

Enrol and Start Module 1
Your Toolkit

Industry Tools You Will Master

Every tool in this list is one you will install, configure, and use on real samples during the course. No demos — you do the work yourself.

Ghidra
IDA Free
x64dbg
PEStudio
Detect It Easy
Wireshark
Procmon
TCPView
Regshot
FakeNet
Volatility
YARA
VirusTotal
Process Explorer
Strings
Learning Path

Your Journey Over 50 Hours

The programme follows a deliberate progression. Each phase builds directly on the previous one, so nothing feels disconnected or rushed.

Phase 1 — Foundation

Hours 1–12 · Modules 1 & 2

You start by understanding the threat landscape, malware taxonomy, and real-world case studies. By the end of this phase, you can classify malware families and identify indicators of compromise in artefacts handed to you.

Phase 2 — Core Analysis

Hours 13–28 · Modules 3 & 4

This is where the technical depth begins. You build your own isolated lab, learn PE file structure inside out, pick up assembly reading, and write your first YARA rules. Static analysis becomes second nature.

Phase 3 — Live Behaviour

Hours 29–42 · Modules 5 & 6

You start detonating samples. Process monitoring, network traffic capture, registry changes, memory dumps — you handle all of it. This phase separates analysts who read about malware from those who actually work with it.

Phase 4 — Defence & Reporting

Hours 43–50 · Modules 7 & 8

Everything comes together. You write professional IOC reports, build detection logic for SIEMs, and understand the legal guardrails around handling live samples. You leave with a portfolio-ready capstone report.

What You Walk Away With

Concrete Skills, Not Vague Promises

Every outcome maps directly to something you will be asked to do on the job — whether in a SOC, IR team, or threat intelligence role.

01

Triage Suspicious Binaries

Quickly assess whether a file is worth deeper investigation using hash lookups, PE analysis, and string extraction — in under ten minutes.

02

Perform Static & Dynamic Analysis

Disassemble, decompile, and instrument malware to understand capabilities, communication channels, and persistence methods.

03

Write Detection Rules

Author YARA rules that catch variants, not just exact hashes. Translate analysis findings into signatures your detection stack can consume.

04

Analyse Memory Dumps

Use Volatility to find injected processes, hidden network connections, and rootkit artefacts that disk forensics cannot reveal.

05

Map Behaviour to ATT&CK

Document observed techniques using the MITRE ATT&CK framework, producing intelligence that other teams can action immediately.

06

Produce Professional Reports

Deliver analysis reports with IOCs, behavioural summaries, and remediation guidance clear enough for management and detailed enough for engineering.

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Career Paths & Salary Insights

Where This Course Takes You Professionally

Malware analysis is not a single job title — it is a skill set that unlocks multiple high-demand roles across the cybersecurity industry.

Malware Analyst

₹6–18 LPA · $75–130K globally

The most direct path from this course. Malware analysts dissect suspicious binaries, document their behaviour, and produce intelligence that security teams rely on to defend networks.

Static AnalysisDynamic AnalysisYARAReporting

SOC Analyst — Tier 2 & 3

₹5–15 LPA · $65–110K globally

Tier 1 analysts triage alerts. Tier 2 and Tier 3 analysts investigate them. This course gives you the ability to open a binary and tell the team what it does.

Alert InvestigationIOC ExtractionSIEM

Incident Responder

₹8–22 LPA · $85–140K globally

When a breach happens, knowing how to pull apart the malware involved — identifying persistence mechanisms, extracting C2 addresses, mapping the attack chain — separates responders who contain damage from those who just collect logs.

Memory ForensicsNetwork AnalysisContainment

Threat Intelligence Analyst

₹7–20 LPA · $80–135K globally

Threat intelligence analysts track adversary groups and their tooling. Understanding how malware is built, packed, and delivered is essential for attributing campaigns and producing actionable intelligence reports.

ATT&CK MappingIOC ReportsAttribution

Detection Engineer

₹10–25 LPA · $90–150K globally

Detection engineers write the rules that catch threats — YARA signatures, SIEM correlation logic, EDR behavioural detections. This course teaches you to translate analysis findings into detection content.

YARA RulesSIEM RulesEDR

Reverse Engineer

₹12–30 LPA · $100–170K globally

The most technically demanding role — and the highest paid. Reverse engineers dive deep into assembly code and binary structures to understand malware at the instruction level.

x86 AssemblyGhidraIDADebugging

Salary ranges are based on publicly available data from industry surveys and job postings as of 2025–2026. Actual compensation varies by location, experience, and employer.

Reverse engineers earn ₹12–30 LPA. The skills gap is your opportunity.

Analysts with RE depth earn 30–40% more than triage-only peers. This programme builds that depth.

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Your Instructor

Learn From Practitioners, Not Lecturers

Cybernous Expert Faculty

Senior Malware Analyst & Threat Researcher

Our instructors are working professionals who analyse malware as part of their daily responsibilities — not people who stopped practising years ago. They bring current TTPs, fresh samples, and lessons from active investigations directly into the classroom.

The teaching approach is straightforward: explain the concept, show it on a live sample, then hand you the keyboard. Rinse and repeat for 50 hours.

Faculty members hold recognised certifications across offensive and defensive security disciplines and have contributed to published threat intelligence reports.

Industry CertifiedReal-World IR ExperiencePublished Research
Alumni Results

Real People, Real Outcomes

Victoria Logis
Victoria Logis
CISSP - 100 Days

I did it! Thank you so much Manoj sir! It made such a huge difference to listen to you and study your material!! I could not done it without you!

Qayoum
Qayoum
CISSP

"Three things got me through, Manoj sir's patience, the questions on the platform, and a batch full of motivated people. We pushed each other in the whole journey. He pushed all of us. Didn't feel like coaching. Felt like family. Thankyou Cybernous." – Qayoum

Pankaj Daga
Pankaj Daga
CISSP

"Discipline, Discipline and Discipline is the mantra Cybernous drilled into me from last 11 months to be rewarded with CISSP certification. I do consider myself to be extremely blessed to get mentored by an ex Indian army veteran Mr Manoj Sharma, one of the best trainers in India on CISSP course." - Pankaj

Ramansh
Ramansh
CISSP - 100 Days

"I was stuck in a cycle of reading and forgetting. Then the Domain Practice mode on the LMS gave me structure 2,800+ questions, timer mode, the works. Add Manoj sir's personal check-ins pushing me forward every week and suddenly I wasn't just studying, I was improving." – Ramansh

Devang
Devang
CISSP - 100 Days

"I was losing sleep over cryptography and access control couldn't wrap up around them. Then Manoj sir's real-world scenario approach in the Gym Sessions made it all click. He doesn't teach you to memorize, he teaches you to think. The 5000+ practice questions did the rest. CISSP done." – Devang

Indra Bhushan
Indra Bhushan

"What surprised me most was the batch community — everyone pushing each other, sharing doubts, celebrating small wins. That plus Manoj sir's exam mindset coaching completely changed how I approached the CAT format." – Indrabhushan

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Common Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Comfort with a command line, basic understanding of Windows and Linux file systems, and familiarity with networking concepts such as IP addressing, DNS, and TCP/IP are sufficient entry points. You do not need prior malware analysis or reverse engineering experience — Module 1 builds the necessary foundations in PE file structure, Windows internals, and how processes, memory, and the registry work before introducing any analysis techniques. Candidates who already hold CompTIA Security+, CEH, or have SOC experience will find the early modules move quickly, while complete beginners will find the progression deliberate and well-supported.
The lab curriculum covers all major malware categories encountered in real-world incident response. You will analyse Remote Access Trojans (RATs) including commodity families and custom implants, ransomware samples covering both the encryption engine and C2 communication patterns, banking trojans with web injection capabilities, stealers targeting credentials and browser data, loaders and droppers used in multi-stage attacks, rootkits using SSDT hooking and DKOM techniques, and fileless malware that operates entirely in memory. Each sample is curated from real-world threat campaigns and analysed inside isolated virtual machine environments.
The programme covers the full professional malware analyst toolkit. For static analysis: PEiD, PEview, CFF Explorer, Strings, Floss, Detect-It-Easy (DiE), and YARA rule development. For dynamic analysis: Process Monitor (ProcMon), Process Hacker, Wireshark, FakeNet-NG, Regshot, and ApateDNS for network simulation. For disassembly and decompilation: Ghidra, IDA Free, and x64dbg. For memory forensics: Volatility 3 framework. For sandboxing: Cuckoo Sandbox, ANY.RUN, and CAPE Sandbox. YARA and Sigma rule development for detection engineering is covered in a dedicated module.
Yes — all labs use real malware samples. Module 3 is entirely dedicated to building a professional-grade isolated analysis environment using VirtualBox or VMware Workstation. You will configure network isolation using host-only and internal network adapters, install REMnux and a hardened Windows FLARE VM, set up INetSim for simulating internet services during dynamic analysis, and implement snapshot management for rapid environment restoration after each analysis session. The isolated environment ensures zero risk of accidental infection to your host machine or network.
Minimum: 8 GB RAM, a quad-core processor with virtualisation support (Intel VT-x or AMD-V enabled in BIOS), and 100 GB of free disk space. Recommended: 16 GB RAM and 200 GB of SSD space to run multiple virtual machines simultaneously. Windows 10/11, Ubuntu 20.04+, or macOS all work as the host OS. You will need VirtualBox (free) or VMware Workstation Player installed before the course starts. All analysis tools are free and open source. We provide detailed pre-course setup instructions.
Free resources give you fragments in isolation — a Wireshark tutorial here, a Ghidra walkthrough there, sandbox reports with no explanatory context. They cannot give you a structured progression with a live instructor who can answer your questions, a curated lab environment where you operate the tools yourself, and a capstone project you can show an employer. This course teaches you how to interpret and go beyond what sandboxes surface, including obfuscated samples, anti-analysis techniques, and memory-resident threats that automated tools miss entirely.
Malware analysis expertise is highly valued. In India, analysts with reverse engineering depth earn ₹10–20 LPA at mid-level, with senior malware analysts earning ₹22–40 LPA. Globally, roles typically range from $90,000 to $160,000 annually. Specific roles this programme prepares you for include: Malware Analyst, SOC Analyst Tier 2/3, Incident Responder, Threat Intelligence Analyst, Detection Engineer, and Reverse Engineer. Organisations actively hiring include threat intelligence teams at Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, banking IR teams, MSSPs, and government CERTs.
Yes — the programme's content aligns closely with leading malware analysis certifications. GREM (GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware) covers static and dynamic analysis, Windows internals, and assembly language — all addressed across Modules 1 through 6. eCMAP (eLearnSecurity Certified Malware Analysis Professional) covers behaviour analysis, static reversing, and report writing. The EC-Council CHFI includes memory forensics and malware investigation components covered by Modules 6 and 7. Completing this programme gives you practical, hands-on preparation for these certification exams.
This is arguably the most direct upskilling path for all three roles. SOC analysts who can reverse engineer binaries get promoted faster to Tier 2 and Tier 3. Incident responders benefit from the memory forensics and anti-analysis evasion modules. Threat intelligence analysts gain the capability to attribute malware samples, identify tool reuse across campaigns, and produce technical threat reports with original depth rather than relying entirely on third-party intelligence feeds.

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