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Video Lessons

Step-by-step lessons across Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis, Cloud Security, and more. Each episode pairs with articles, resources, and follow-up MCQ assessments in the 4Q course view.

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12 lessons in REMA

REMAREMA SHORT1:00

Bypassing Malware VM Detection: The MAC Address Trick

One of the most common anti-analysis techniques — the MAC Address OUI check — and how to bypass it without touching the binary. Alter the .vmx configuration file from the host to spoof a physical MAC address and force the malware to detonate in your sandbox.

malware-analysis·intermediate·2 views

REMAREMA SHORT0:40

Why Traditional Antivirus Fails Against Polymorphic Malware

Signature detection is useless against code that shifts shape. How a mutation engine alters variable names and registers to change the file signature while leaving the malicious payload identical — and how modern behavioral sandbox analysis catches it.

malware-analysis·beginner·2 views

REMAEp. 6

In-Depth Malware Analysis: Unpacking & Memory Forensics

Identifying packed binaries, manual unpacking with the ESP breakpoint, IAT reconstruction, and Volatility memory forensics workflow.

advanced-analysis·advanced·5 views

REMAEp. 4.2

Malware's Perfect Disguise: Inside Advanced Code Injection

Living off the Land binaries, fileless execution, and the techniques attackers use to disappear into legitimate Windows processes.

reverse-engineering·advanced·6 views

REMAEp. 4.1

The Explainer: Dissecting Process Hollowing

A focused, single-topic walkthrough of process hollowing — the API sequence, the memory state at each step, and how to detect it.

reverse-engineering·advanced·6 views

REMAEp. 2

Real-World Malware Case Studies & Code Evasion

Three landmark cases — Stuxnet, Colonial Pipeline, and REvil/Kaseya — paired with the code-level evasion taxonomy every analyst must know.

foundations·intermediate·18 views

REMAEp. 5

Malicious Web & Document Files: Phishing & Drive-By Downloads

How attackers compromise targets through browsers and documents instead of executables. Drive-by downloads, weaponised PDFs and Office documents, JavaScript de-obfuscation.

document-analysis·intermediate·7 views

REMAEp. 7

Defeating Self-Defending Malware: Anti-Debugging & Evasion

How elite malware detects debuggers, identifies VMs, sabotages analysis, and protects embedded data — and how the analyst defeats each defence.

evasion·advanced·5 views

REMAEp. 4

Reversing Malicious Code: Process Hollowing & API Hooking

How malware injects code into other processes and intercepts function calls. The four major injection techniques and the three layers of API hooking.

reverse-engineering·advanced·9 views

REMAEp. 3

The Malware Analysis Pipeline: Static & Dynamic Techniques

The full pipeline from receiving a sample to producing a verdict, covering PE structure, hashes, IAT analysis, sandbox detonation, and persistence checks.

static-analysis·intermediate·11 views

REMAEp. 1.5

The Foundations of Malware Analysis & x86 Theory

A deeper, more academic exploration of x86 internals, instruction encoding, the EFLAGS register, and the operand model.

foundations·beginner·28 views

REMAEp. 1

Introduction to Malware Analysis: Triage & x86 Architecture

Foundational lecture on what malware is, the three-question triage method, and the x86 fundamentals every analyst needs.

foundations·beginner·32 views