Malware engineering for dummies

Malicious software has become a major threat to modern society. It affects to all sectors in the industry all over the world. The impact can vary being from an economic point of view to privacy invasion or to damage the targeted system. Being able to understand what a malware does can be used for detection and future prevention. For it, is crucial to train our future professionals. Analyzing malware requires deep knowledge of Operating Systems internal design and tools manipulation. All this knowledge was acquired and demonstrated in practice along the project. This project develops three malware samples and provides their correspondent technical reverse engineer analysis. This material has been created with the goal of being used as teaching resource at the laboratories of the Master in Cybersecurity at the University Carlos III of Madrid. The subject which this material is done for is named Malware analysis and engineering. Malware analysis is a really specific field with a limited resource access of information for learning. This projects tries to make that barrier narrower by proving a laboratory exercise for master students. To keep the standards of the education quality policy of the university, this laboratory exercise is developed for the latest Microsoft Windows platform. The books, articles and tutorials followed during project development are mentioned in the document and stablished as reliable sources. The followed methodology with all previously explained , ensures to provide nowadays technology and a high level technical skill for a high quality education.Ingeniería Informátic