With this course, I wanted to create something both beneficial for beginners in the field, as well as those with a year or two under their belt. After looking at several other courses available for roughly the same price, I noticed some common criticisms between them. Firstly, there was a lack of practical, hands-on course work - meaning most of it was theory. Secondly, the samples used in the courses that had practical examples seemed quite old. Finally, the courses only seemed to be focused on compiled executables, rather than other variants of malware such as scripted malware or even malicious .NET programs. My aim in this course was to resolve these issues, and so throughout the course we will be looking at several different samples, all of which are less than a year old. Some examples of the samples we will be looking at are Trickbot, Emotet and Ursnif - all extremely notorious malware families active today! And it's not all focused on one type of malware - we also take a look at malicious Word Documents which contain malware written in Visual Basic and Powershell!