Reverse Engineering

Education facts

Code: 5DV240

This course focuses on software reverse engineering. It presents the fundamental concepts of static program analysis (basic blocks, call graphs, inter-procedural analysis, etc.) and dynamic program analysis (dynamic instrumentation, execution environment, etc.). The course also discusses program analysis challenges such as code obfuscation. The course describes multiple reverse engineering applications such as malware analysis, patch analysis to identify vulnerabilities and analysis of an embedded system's firmware.

Entry requirements

At least 90 ECTS, including 60 ECTS Computing Science. At least 7.5 ECTS introductory programming; 7.5 ECTS data structures and algorithms; 7.5 ECTS discrete mathematics. 7.5 ECTS systems programming.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Reverse Engineering

  Umeå University

  Start date: 25 March 2027

  End date: 6 June 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %