My first Malware Analysis certification is TCM Security’s Practical Malware Research Professional. The author of the course is Matt Kiely, a great instructor! I was able to learn and understand everything easily. The course, I would say, can be good for anyone who really are interested in Malware Analysis. From Static Analysis to Dynamic Analysis, everything you need to know will be taught on the course. His style of teaching is, he would allow you to solve everything on your own first then on the next part of the video he will then show you his own methodology.
The course overall is great, from basic to advance, he will teach you all the stuff you needed in order to perform a malware analysis. He will show you how you should approach a malware, how you should contain it, and what are the stuff to lookout for. From basic to advance analysis are all taught in the course, aside from that he will also teach you on how to setup your own lab and how to check what are the services the malicious program is looking for, and what should we use in order to properly identify the behavior of this program. For me, the module is enough in order to ace the exam, the exam is great! It provides you a malware sample and then analyse it and create a report, not a multiple choice exam instead you do your own analysis.
The exam result on my end took more than a week before I received it. The reason for that is because they are currently on tight schedule with limited people at that time but some received their result earlier. I took the exam once and good thing I passed it on first try, the only thing I would recommend for the exam is to make sure you can do everything on the lab on your own and confidently create a report of your analysis. If you’re good with that, then everything should workout fine.
