Semester Arc

• Weeks 1--3: foundations — landscape, safety, PE format, triage (Lab 1).
• Weeks 4--6: x86-64 assembly and static reversing with Ghidra (Lab 2).
• Weeks 7--9: process internals, DLL injection, API hooking (Lab 3).
• Weeks 10--12: dynamic and behavioral analysis; build a detector (Lab 4).
• Weeks 13--15: rootkits, anti-analysis, and the Stuxnet capstone (Lab 5).

Dates and exact ordering may shift — watch the course site and announcements.