Malware Analysis Course in Gujarat
Malware analysis is answering, with evidence, what a suspicious file does. This track builds an isolated lab and works through triage in order: static properties and strings, PE structure, packer detection, sandbox detonation, watching processes, registry, files and network traffic, then extracting indicators of compromise and writing an analysis a SOC or IR team can act on immediately.
Last updated: 6 August 2026
What this track will not do for you
This track takes you to competent triage and behavioural analysis, not to full reversing of heavily obfuscated APT samples — that is years of separate work. You will still meet samples you cannot unpack. Dedicated malware analyst roles in India are concentrated in a few product companies and MSSPs, so most graduates enter through SOC or DFIR.
Who this is for
Built for SOC and blue-team analysts, incident responders and IT admins who currently just upload suspicious attachments to VirusTotal and hope. Not for complete beginners — if you cannot yet read a process list or a packet capture, start with security fundamentals. This is not a course in writing malware.
Prerequisites: Solid Windows awareness — processes, services, registry, DLLs and scheduled tasks — plus networking basics and real comfort with virtual machines and snapshots. Some ability to read C or Python helps considerably. You need a machine that can run two VMs at once, so 16GB RAM is strongly recommended, and disciplined lab hygiene.
The picture in Gujarat
An export and manufacturing state. Surat cuts and polishes diamonds and weaves man-made fabric, Ahmedabad handles textiles, chemicals and trade, Vadodara and Dahej cover petrochemicals and engineering, Rajkot runs a foundry and machine-tools belt, Morbi makes ceramic tiles, and Jamnagar is known for brass parts and refining. Family-run SME units dominate.
Business owners here are comfortable with digital commerce — IndiaMART, WhatsApp Business catalogues and UPI are standard even in small units. Gujarati-language content matters and so does English, because a large share of enquiries come from overseas buyers and NRI networks. Many firms have listings and social pages but no owned website that ranks.
Sectors hiring for this in Gujarat
Main centres: Ahmedabad · Surat · Vadodara · Rajkot · Bhavnagar · Jamnagar
Malware Analysis Course syllabus
10 weeks · 55 hours (live online, or at the Hisar campus). Every module is hands-on — you work on your own machine from Gujarat, never against systems you do not own.
01. Building a lab that cannot leak
- Host-only networking, isolated segments and snapshot discipline
- FlareVM for Windows analysis, REMnux for Linux tooling
- INetSim and FakeDNS to simulate the internet safely
- Sample handling, storage, password-protected archives
- What never to do: production machines, shared drives, personal accounts
02. Static triage
- Hashes, VirusTotal and MalwareBazaar context (without over-trusting labels)
- Strings, encodings and embedded configuration
- PE headers, sections, imports and exports
- Entropy and packer or crypter detection
- Writing your first YARA rule from static features
03. Behavioural and dynamic analysis
- Process Monitor and Process Hacker during detonation
- File system and registry changes worth recording
- Persistence: Run keys, services, scheduled tasks, WMI subscriptions
- Wireshark on command-and-control traffic and beaconing patterns
- Building a clean timeline of observed behaviour
04. Unpacking and code-level inspection
- Recognising common packers and their unpacking stubs
- Dumping an unpacked image from memory
- x64dbg breakpoints on interesting Windows APIs
- Reading function-level logic in Ghidra without full reversing
- API call patterns that reveal intent quickly
05. Document, script and loader malware
- Malicious Office macros and VBA extraction with oletools
- LNK, HTA and OneNote lure chains
- PowerShell deobfuscation layer by layer
- JavaScript and VBS droppers
- Following a phishing attachment from email to final payload
06. Turning analysis into defence
- Extracting and validating indicators of compromise
- Mapping observed behaviour to MITRE ATT&CK techniques
- Writing YARA and Sigma detection rules
- Executive summary vs technical detail in one report
- Handing findings to SOC, EDR and threat intel teams
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Where this leads
| Role | Typical band |
|---|---|
| SOC Analyst L2 / Threat Analyst | roughly ₹4–8 LPA range |
| Incident Responder (DFIR) | roughly ₹5–10 LPA range |
| Malware Analyst | roughly ₹6–14 LPA range, but openings are limited |
| Detection Engineer (YARA / Sigma / EDR rules) | roughly ₹6–13 LPA range |
Salary bands are indicative ranges across India and vary widely with skill, city and employer. Public aggregators disagree considerably on specialist roles, so treat any single figure — including these — as a range, not a promise. We do not guarantee placement.
Fees
These are our published course fees. Specialist tracks like the malware analysis course are quoted on the counselling call, because the right scope depends on what you already know — we will not sell you six months of content to teach you something you can cover in six weeks.
| Cyber Security Course | 3–4 months | ₹15,000 |
| Ethical Hacking Course (CEH-aligned) | 6 months | ₹60,000 |
| Digital Forensics | 2 months / 35 hours | ₹10,999 |
| CCNA Networking | 2 months / 45 hours | ₹8,999 |
EMI available. No separate lab, material or certificate charges. Vendor exam vouchers (EC-Council, OffSec, CompTIA, AWS, Microsoft) are bought from the vendor — we do not resell them.
Malware Analysis Course in Gujarat — FAQs
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We have no office in Gujarat
Cyber Defence has one campus — Red Square Market, Hisar, Haryana 125001 — and teaches Gujarat live online. We do not list addresses we do not have, we publish no star ratings because we have no verified review corpus, and we do not guarantee placement.
We issue a Cyber Defence certificate with a public verification link. We are not an authorised training centre for EC-Council, OffSec, CompTIA, AWS or Microsoft, and we do not resell their exam vouchers.
Ask whether this track is right for you
Free call with Amit Kumar. If a shorter track or a different starting point suits you better, that is what you will hear.
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