Engineering in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

General Outcomes. The current scenarios related to cyber security show us the increasingly pervasive presence of malicious software used to perpetrate cyber attacks. The course aims to provide students with the knowledge, methods, and basic tools to analyze, identify, categorize, and understand the behavior of malicious software. The course will adopt a practical approach, with a significant component of application to real cases. Specific Outcomes. Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of distinctive characteristics and functionalities of malicious software. Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to statically and dynamically analyze an instance of potentially malicious untrusted software. Applied ability to identify and evaluate different functionalities of an instance of untrusted software through reverse-engineering methods and tools. Making judgments: Ability to interpret the results of analysis and reverse engineering activities of untrusted software as a potentially malicious sample. Communication skills: Being able to present the results of technical analysis in the form of a report in the spirit of what professionals in the field do. Learning skills: The course's methods encourage students to independently delve deeper into the methodologies presented in the theoretical and practical classes on each topic. They will apply them to complex instances of software that employ a variety of techniques and functionalities.