Introduction to malware, Basic Static and Dynamic Analysis, Overview of Windows file format, PEView.exe, Patching Binaries , Disassembly(objdump, IDA Pro), Introduction to IDA, Introduction to Reverse Engineering, Extended Reverse Engineering using GDB and IDA, Advanced Dynamic Analysis – debugging tools and concepts, Malware Behavior – malicious activities and techniques, Analyzing Windows programs – WinAPI, Handles ,Networking , COM, Data Encoding, Malware Countermeasures , Covert Launching and Execution, Anti Analysis – Anti Disassembly, VM, Debugging -, Packers – packing and upacking, Intro to Kernel – Kernel basics, Windows Kernel API, Windows Drivers, Kernel Debugging, Rootkit Techniques- Hooking, Patching, Kernel Object Manipulation , Rootkit Anti-forensics , Covert analysis