Hello people, welcome back to the course on absolute basic concepts of malware analysis.
In this module, we will learn about some of the essential knowledge that will help us in understanding
malware analysis better.
So, before heading into learning actual malware analysis, we will establish few fundamentals like
how are applications built?
What is a binary file?
What are libraries and functions?
We will take a look at the challenges faced while working with binary files.
We will then learn about the most widely used executable format, that is the PE file structure.
We will conclude the module by shedding some light on how malware authors try to obfuscate their malware.