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Performing Malware Analysis on Malicious Documents
Malicious documents have become a form of malware that all incident responders need to be able to analyze. This course will teach you how to analyze malicious Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office documents, along with any malicious scripts they contain.

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2 hour 59 minutes
english
Online - Self Paced
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About Performing Malware Analysis on Malicious Documents
Hiding malware within documents has become one the main methods attackers use to compromise systems. In this course, Performing Malware Analysis on Malicious Documents, you will learn how to look at documents to determine if they contain malware, and if so, what that malware does. First, you will explore how to analyze malicious Adobe PDF and Microsoft Office documents. Next, you will discover how attackers obfuscate scripts within malicious documents, and how you can defeat that obfuscation to determine the script's purpose. Finally, you will dive into the tools required to perform this analysis safely and quickly. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge needed to perform malware analysis on malicious documents.
What You Will Learn?
- Course Overview : 1min.
- Introduction and Setting up Your Lab : 14mins.
- Performing Document Analysis : 23mins.
- Analyzing PDF Documents : 27mins.
- Performing JavaScript Analysis : 27mins.
- PDF Lab : 9mins.
- Analyzing Office Documents : 18mins.
- Performing VBA Script Analysis : 18mins.
- Quickly Analyzing Malicious Documents : 15mins.
- Office Document Lab : 13mins.
- Analyzing Malicious Documents Recap : 9mins.