Malware Analysis Course in Maharashtra
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 Maharashtra
Mumbai carries banking, insurance, capital markets, advertising and the film industry. Pune runs on automotive manufacturing around Pimpri-Chinchwad plus a very large IT and engineering services base. Nagpur is a logistics and cargo node, Nashik combines auto components with grapes and wine, Kolhapur has foundries, and the state has one of India’s densest MSME populations.
Metro Maharashtra is close to saturated on smartphones, card and UPI payments, and business software. The gap is inland: traders in Solapur, Latur, Jalgaon and Chandrapur run on WhatsApp and Tally with no proper website. Marathi-language search is common outside Mumbai and Pune, and buyers routinely check a firm online before calling.
Sectors hiring for this in Maharashtra
Main centres: Mumbai · Pune · Nagpur · Thane · Nashik · Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
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 Maharashtra, 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 Maharashtra — FAQs
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We have no office in Maharashtra
Cyber Defence has one campus — Red Square Market, Hisar, Haryana 125001 — and teaches Maharashtra 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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