Cooperative Cyber Defence
Centre of Excellence Tallinn, Estonia

Botnet Takeover Course

Dates
13-17 September 2010

Venue
CCD COE, Tallinn, Estonia

Course Overview

1)      Setting up a laboratory environment for botnet analysis
2)      Introduction to reverse engineering of malware
3)      Static and dynamic analysis of botnet traffic
4)      Hand-on exercise: botnet takeover

Course outline

Day 1: Introduction to the malicious side

- Malware spreading techniques and botnet overview
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Important concepts of the Windows operating system
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Reverse engineering methodologies
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Lab setup
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Botnet creation using bot construction kits

Day 2: Introduction to botnet analysis

-Applied Blackboxing
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Sandbox concepts
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x86 architecture and assembly primer
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Reverse mapping of assembly to high-level languages

Day 3: Static Analysis

- Static analysis tools and IDA Pro
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IRC Botnet takeover exercise I

Day 4: Dynamic Analysis

- Dynamic analysis and debugging methodology
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Shellcode investigation
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(Exploitation concepts depending on time constraints)
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 IRC Botnet takeover exercise II

Day 5: Applied botnet analysis

- Packers, unpacking, and sample reconstruction
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HTTP Botnet analysis and monitoring

Accommodation

Course attendees are welcome to book a room for a special price of 95 EUR in the Radisson Blu Hotel. Promotional code: CCDCOE

Contact

For any enquiries and further information, please contact Maj Leo Oja (leo.oja -at- ccdcoe.org; +372 7176 )

News

25 August 2010 CCDCOE Organises Two Technical Courses in September
15 July 2010 SACEUR Visits the Centre
23 June 2010 Hungary Joins the Centre
16 June 2010 President Ilves Opens Conference on Cyber Conflict
11 June 2010 Peter Flory to give an Ending Keynote at the Conference