Week 2: From Idea to Malware

How a threat model and a motivation become a working malicious program, traced through the malware development lifecycle

3 August 2027

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Every malicious program starts somewhere short of malicious: a threat model, a motivation, and a plan. This lecture follows that plan through the malware development lifecycle to a finished, working program.

Outline#

• threat models and motivations
• malware development lifecycle
• anatomy of a malicious program
• analysis of historical examples