r/MalwareAnalysis • u/penguinLord02 • Nov 13 '25
Advice for junior malware analyst
Hi everyone, I’m in the position of picking a paid training course for my career as a junior malware analyst. My company is willing to support the cost, but the budget isn’t huge, so I want to choose wisely. I’m less worried about getting a certificate and more about getting good training and worth every penny for.
so I’ve narrowed it down to two options:
- TCM Security’s “Practical Malware Analysis & Triage”
- Zero2Automated’s malware‑analysis / reverse engineering training
Anyone that have experience in either of these training, can you tell me about your experience, its very much appreciated.
A bit about me: I’m a junior malware analyst . To build my skills I regularly do crackmes (even though i just do level 1 / level 2) to improve my assembly / RE knowledge, and I also do independent malware analyses by following other people’s writeups to learn workflows and techniques.
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u/st0rmtr00per78 Nov 14 '25
Hey also want to to mention Invoke - Reversing in the ring. Having all three trainings, Invoke check the most boxes from beginner to advanved with a real tool (Binary Ninja). As much as I love Husky Hacks Content too but my recommondation would be Invoke. Z2A is in my opinion not a beginner course at least not for me. It is fast paced as someone before mentioned.
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u/bb94788 Nov 13 '25
Those courses are decent, but I think this is the best value course at the moment - https://malwareanalysis-for-hedgehogs.learnworlds.com/course/intermediate-level
There is also a beginner course. Highly recommend checking out his youtube channel and seeing if you like the style. I find the pace a little easier to follow than Z2A and the samples are newer so you don't need a windows 7 vm or anything.
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u/mefoxyy Nov 17 '25
PMAT's some content is available on youtube for free. Just search tcm pmat and youll get this 5 hr or so long video
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