This is the core of beginner malware analysis. You will run the malware yourself (safely) and watch it misbehave.
Search for: "Malware dynamic analysis tutorial using RegShot and ProcMon."
How the video should play out:
What you will see in the video:
Beginner Insight: If you can do this, you can write a "Detection Rule" for your firewall or Antivirus. You are now a threat hunter.
As a beginner, you should not manually reverse engineer complex malware. Use sandboxes. Video tutorials here are crucial.
Search for: "How to use ANY.RUN or Joe Sandbox for beginners." malware+analysis+video+tutorial+for+beginners
Learning checkpoints in the video:
If you can answer these three questions from a sandbox report, you are doing Level 1 Malware Analysis.
✅ A good tutorial will explicitly warn against these. This is the core of beginner malware analysis
What to search: "Malware evasion techniques sandbox detection"
Once you watch a few basic videos, you need the next level: Avoidance. Malware is smart. It knows it is in a VM. A good advanced-beginner tutorial will show you malware that:
What you learn here: Why your dynamic analysis sometimes fails, and how to add "flags" to your lab to trick the malware. What you will see in the video: