Hello Friends Welcome back to the course. 1
Let us discuss the next important topic here and that's about the hardware requirements. 2
So what will be the hardware requirements for completing this course. 3
The requirements are pretty basic and almost all modern day laptops are PCs will have this configuration. 4
but it is ideal to have a CPU of two to three GHZ of processing power and RAM of 8 to 5
16 GB. The RAM will be critical here because we have to run a bunch of virtual machines that will be 6
like a safe environment where we will be executing and analyzing the malware files. 7
We would also require at least 200 GB of storage space. 8
That's the ideal scenario. 9
But if you have less than that for example let's say 60 to 80 GB of space and that would also work 10
out but it would be best to have at least 100 GB storage space free to perform all the operations 11
of this course. 12
Coming to the software requirements. The requirements again here are pretty basic. 13
And as we proceed in the course we'll be talking more about what kinds of tools and softwares would 14
be required to do some specific analysis goals. 15
So starting with the operating system so it would be good to have either Windows or a UNIX based machine. 16
Either Mac or the next that would be sufficient to hold your virtual environment. 17
You should have Windows 10 or Windows 7 as a guest OS or as a virtual OS because most of the malware 18
analysis tools are designed for Windows environment so it would be ideal to have a virtual image of 19
either Windows 10 or Windows 7 where we can do the analysis of the file formats. 20
We would also need virtualization software like VMware or virtual box. 21
Obviously these softwares will help us to launch the guest OS which is a Windows environment and we 22
will be setting up our entire analysis lab in this guest environment. 23
The next video will basically talk about how we are going to set up the entire environment here. 24
There will be some additional tools that will be required as well during the course. 25
Some of them have been listed here like IDAPro, Wireshark, PEstudio, CFF Explorer, text editor etc.. 26
this is not the complete list. 27
There will be few more tools that will be required as well and there are a bunch of ways how we can 28
go through it. 29
We can either install all these tools in a single go when we are setting up our malware lab or we can 30
set up a basic environment where we have the windows guest OS running and we can start using tools one 31
by one as we proceed with the different steps of analysis. 32
So both options are there. 33
We'll see how we want to take it forward. 34
Then we would also need malware samples that can be downloaded from Virustotal and other open sources. 35
Obviously because we are going to do analysis of malware files and malicious files it's ideal to have 36
a separate lab kind of environment where we can have these files downloaded where we can start 37
analyzing them. 38
And because these are actual malware samples, actual infected files it would be ideal to have them saved 39
in an environment where it cannot really infect your host operating system. 40
So we would need sources from there we can download all these malware samples. 41
You can get the information either from Virustotal or probably some other open sources. 42
There are a lot of different sources and very good sources 43
From there we can collect malware samples and we'll be talking about them in great detail later on. 44
I'll also try and provide you these malware samples by hosting them on my personal cloud account. 45
If it doesn't violate the policies of the cloud services. 46
And probably from there as well you can download the sample and analyze the courses. 47
So that's all about this video. 48
And in the next video probably we will go ahead and discuss about how we can set up our malware lab. 49
Thanks a lot guys.