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Prerequisites & Requirements

• Network protocol analysis and packet inspection
• Assembly language basics (x86-64 architecture)
• Experience with network security tools like Wireshark
• Basic understanding of reverse shells and command & control (C2) communications
• Knowledge of malware analysis techniques
• Understanding of fileless malware attack vectors

What will you learn?

• How to analyze network traffic to identify malicious activities
• Techniques for extracting and analyzing shellcode from network captures
• How to reverse engineer assembly code to understand malware behavior
• How to decrypt and analyze encrypted reverse shell communications
• Understanding of fileless malware techniques that don't write files to disk
• Network forensics techniques for incident response
• How attackers use legitimate services (like GitHub) to host malicious payloads

Tools

• Wireshark - Network protocol analyzer for examining the PCAP file
• Ghidra - NSA's reverse engineering framework for shellcode analysis
• Python - For scripting, shellcode extraction, and decryption
• Cryptography library - For handling Fernet encryption/decryption