Building your Malware Analysis Home Lab for learning and fun

Over the years, threat actors are increasingly using more complex techniques to obscure how their malware operates. Keeping up with the changing trends might be difficult, however, you don’t need 15 years of experience in reverse engineering to help you win this battle. One great way to learn about malware is to build your own home lab and play with real samples within this environment. This can be a fun and educational project. If you do happen to be an InfoSec analyst, doing digital forensics or incident response, the knowledge you harvest through building and running a malware analysis Lab at work/home just might help you do your job more effectively.

Here’s the webcast of the talk during the singapore SANS community night / Feb 2020 :

Here’s the link to the SANS webcast if you want to watch the full talks : https://www.sans.org/webcast/recording/citrix/113520/166100