RED TEAM Operator: Malware Development Essentials Course

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$199

RED TEAM Operator: Malware Development Essentials Course

34 Lessons

A course on becoming a better ethical hacker, pentester and red teamer by learning offensive security tools development in Windows.

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Welcome to Malware Development Essentials course!

Are you a pen tester having some experience with Metasploit or Empire frameworks? Or maybe you take your first steps as an ethical hacker and you want to know more about how all these offensive tools work? Or you are a blue teamer or threat hunter who needs to better understand the internal workings of malware?

This course will provide you the answers you're looking for. It will teach you how to develop your own custom offensive security tool (OST) for Microsoft Windows. And by custom OTA we mean building a dropper for any payload you want (Metasploit meterpreter, Empire or Cobalt Strike beacons, etc.), injecting your shellcodes into remote processes, creating trojan horses (backdooring existing software) and bypassing Windows Defender AV.

You will receive a virtual machine with complete environment for developing and testing your software, and a set of source code templates which will allow you to focus on understanding the essential mechanisms instead of less important technical aspects of implementation.

COURSE IN A NUTSHELL

You Will Learn

What is malware development
What is PE file structure
Where to store your payload inside PE
How to encode and encrypt payloads
How and why obfuscate function calls
How to backdoor programs
How to inject your code into remote processes

What Will You Get?

Full-blown videos explaining all techniques in detail
Transcription with English subtitles
Text supplements with additional information (code snippets, structure definitions, technology description and context, etc.)
Source code with code templates for rapid development
VM image with ready-to-use development environment
Life-time access to the content

Requirements

Understanding of operating system architecture
Some experience with Windows OS
Basic knowledge about C and Intel assembly
Computer with Intel-compatible CPU, min. 4 GB of RAM + 30 GB of free disk space
VirtualBox 6.0+ installed
Strong will to learn and having fun

Target Audience

Ethical Hackers
Penetration Testers
Blue Teamers
Threat Hunters
All security engineers/professionals wanting to learn advanced offensive tactics

Testimonials

Solomon's thorough course review.

The course is also available in our bundles

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RTO: Offensive Coding CORE

Offensive coding (aka malware development) tactics and techniques for Windows. From basic PE file structure, to code obfuscation, payload injection, API hooking, reflective binaries and more. This pack combines Malware Development Essentials and Intermediate courses.

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RTO: Offensive Coding ADVANCED

More advanced offensive coding tactics and techniques for Windows. From userland rootkits, to building COFFs and kernel hacking. This pack combines both Malware Development Advanced vol. 1 and vol. 2 courses.

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RTO: Offensive Coding + Evasion

The bundle includes all courses from Malware Development series with Windows Evasion course as well. Start learning offensive coding techniques with evasion in mind.

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Intro and Setup

Short introduction to malware development and setting up our test environment

Introduction

3 mins
5.88 MB

Development VM Setup

6 mins
16.5 MB

RTO-Win10.ova

RTO-maldev.zip

1.94 MB

RTO-maldev-encrypted.zip

1.94 MB

Shellcodes

Portable Executable

Explore PE files, their structure and where is a good place for your payload

PE files - format and structure

4 mins
16.6 MB

PE Bear - looking inside

5 mins
18.3 MB

Preview

Generating EXE vs DLL

6 mins
12.8 MB

PE compilation

11 mins
40.5 MB

Droppers

Learn how to write custom droppers

Where to store payloads?

6 mins
11.2 MB

Storing payloads in code section

13 mins
46.7 MB

Data section as a container

6 mins
24.1 MB

Preview

Payloads in resource section

11 mins
41.1 MB

Obfuscation and Hiding

Discover how to hide your code from static and dynamic analysis

Encoding and Encryption

6 mins
11.2 MB

Payload encoding

10 mins
39.2 MB

Preview

Encrypting payloads - XOR

7 mins
32.4 MB

Encrypting payloads - AES

7 mins
28 MB

Antivirus vs call obfuscation

4 mins
8.84 MB

Implementing function call obfuscation

12 mins
40.2 MB

Backdoors and Trojans

Learn how to backdoor existing software and convert it into a custom trojan.

Backdooring PE theory

5 mins
9.52 MB

Making Putty a trojan

21 mins
101 MB

Code Injection

Explore potential ways to inject your payload with classic shellcode and DLL injections

What is code injection?

5 mins
11.1 MB

Injecting code into remote process

5 mins
8.87 MB

Implementing code injection

9 mins
35 MB

Loading DLLs into remote process

6 mins
12.5 MB

DLL generator and injector

8 mins
30.6 MB

Extras

Making program invisible

8 mins
27.8 MB

Combined Project

Take everything what you have learned so far, and build a new custom dropper

Dropper overview

1 min
2.53 MB

Preview

Dropper implementation

25 mins
100 MB

Bypassing Windows Defender

17 mins
74.3 MB

Assignment

Summary

Your Feedback

Course closing information

4 mins
7.23 MB

Instructor: reenz0h

Chief Research Officer at SEKTOR7. In the industry for over 20 years. Worked in global Red Team for almost a decade. Simulated threat actors targeting IT infrastructure across various industries (financial, technology, industrial, energy, aviation) around the world. Speaker at HackCon, PWNing, WTH@ck, Sec-T, T2, DeepSec. Gave guest lectures at several military and civil academies and universities.

Founder of x33fcon security conference
and SEKTOR7 offensive research company

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FAQs

Why malware development?

So-called malware development in the context of legal security testing is also known as offensive security tool (OST) development or Offensive Coding. The goal is to teach all cybersecurity professionals, both red and blue teams, to use this knowledge to better understand how real threat actors operate and use different techniques (TTP). This approach should significantly improve the skillset of offensive and defensive teams in testing and securing the production environments of their customers and employers in the long run.

How long is the course?

All videos are about 4h long.

What language is used in the course?

All videos, text and materials are in English.

Is it on-line course only?

The course is composed of 2 types of materials. Videos, which are available on-line only, and virtual machine with source code templates, which can be downloaded and stored on your computer, so you can access it later off-line.
In case of video download attempts, access to the content will be revoked.

How long is the course available after purchase?

After you purchase the course as an individual (not team/business), you have access to all the videos and materials for life-time. You can learn whenever you want, the content will always await for you.
Moreover, any updates to the course materials (ie. new modules, new videos, new files, etc.) will also be available for anyone who purchased the course without any extra charge.

Do I have to be an expert in C language or Intel assembly?

No. Although some level of experience in C programming and Intel assembly reading is required, you don't have to be an expert in this field. Basic knowledge about the syntax, data structures and function calling convention is enough during the course.
For refresher check these resources:

How can I get an invoice?

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Can I get a Certificate of Completion?

When the course is finished, Certificate of Completion will be generated automatically. The notification email will be send with CoC access details.
To include your name on the certificate, please provide your first and last name in your profile Settings.

Can I share my account with others?

Unfortunately, we consider this unfair and therefore it is prohibited. We try to keep our prices affordable so that the course can reach as many students as possible.

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