Advanced Malware Analysis

This module explores advanced malware analysis, focusing on the dissection and examination of malicious software to understand its origins, functionality, and impact on information systems.

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Shin, Seugwon and Guofei Gu. “Conficker and beyond: a large-scale empirical study.” Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (pp. 151-160). ACM, 2010. Retrieved from http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1920285

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IEEE. “A heuristic approach for detection of obfuscated malware.” 2009 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2009. Retrieved from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5137328