Windows Internals For Malware Developers & Malware Analysts
 

| Duration: 8h 56m
Master Windows Internals to build advanced malware, analyze threats, and understand how malware works inside Windows OS
What you'll learn
Understand core Windows Internals including processes, threads, memory management, PE loading, handles, objects, and system calls.
Analyze, debug, and reverse-engineer malware by understanding how malware interacts with internal Windows components.
Develop Windows-based malware ethically using real API calls, process manipulation, token abuse, and stealth techniques.
Investigate security boundaries and integrity levels to understand privilege escalation, access control, and OS protection mechanisms.
Use Windows Internals knowledge to detect malicious behavior, identify anomalies, and understand attacker techniques.
Apply internal OS concepts in malware analysis labs using debuggers, tools like x64dbg, Process Hacker, and WinDbg.
Understand how system components communicate-from user mode to kernel mode-and how malware exploits these flows.
Build a strong foundation for reverse engineering, malware analysis, exploit development, and blue-team defense.
Requirements
Basic understanding of Windows usage (no prior knowledge of Windows Internals required).
Some programming experience in C,C++.
Interest in malware development, malware analysis, cybersecurity, or ethical hacking.
A Windows 10 or Windows 11 system (physical or virtual machine) to follow along with practical demonstrations.
Optional but recommended: Familiarity with simple command-line usage and basic debugging concepts.
This course is designed to be beginner-friendly. Even if you are new to security, you will learn everything from the ground up and build strong confidence in understanding how Windows Internals relate to malware development and malware analysis.
Description
Understanding Windows Internals is one of the most important skills for anyone entering malware development, malware analysis, reverse engineering, or ethical hacking. This course is designed to give you a deep, practical understanding of how Windows really works behind the scenes, so you can build, analyze, and detect modern malware with confidence.You will learn core Windows components such as processes, threads, memory management, system calls, handles, kernel objects, tokens, integrity levels, PE file loading, and the Windows security model. Each topic is explained in a simple, beginner-friendly manner with practical demonstrations, code examples, and real-world scenarios relevant to malware development and analysis.Whether you want to write advanced malware, analyze malicious executables, bypass security controls, detect malicious behavior, or understand how red-team and threat actors operate, this course gives you the strong internal foundations required.By the end, you will understand how malware interacts with Windows, how the OS reacts internally, and how to use this knowledge to develop more effective malware or to analyze and defend against sophisticated threats. This course prepares you for real-world malware development, BLUE team analysis, incident response, reverse engineering, and ethical hacking. It also strengthens your overall security mindset through deeper operating system awareness and practical understanding.
Ethical Hackers,Malware Developers,Malware Analysts,Red Teams,Penetration tester,Blue Teams,SOC Analysts,Computer Science Students,Windows System Admins,Computer Programmer