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 latest Microsoft Windows 10. 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 snipets, structure definitions, technology description and context, etc.) Source code with code templates for rapid development VM image with ready-to-use development environment Requirements Understanding of operating system architecture Some experience with Windows OS Basic knowledge about C and Intel assembly Computer with 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