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All about: Malware analysis | Reverse Engineering | CTI | DE&TH.

Joined January 2021
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Within this blog, I've articulated a comprehensive overview of both Direct and Indirect syscall techniques. Furthermore, I conducted a reverse engineering analysis on Cobalt Strike beacon to ascertain the specific method it employs. d01a.github.io/syscalls/ #cobaltstrike #infosec
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Working on frontier cybersecurity evals & benchmarks be like 0days as environments. Found a guest to host escape with host-user code execution in the latest VirtualBox version (7.2.22). Full write-up after coordinated disclosure with Oracle is complete.
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My new writeup, this time something different: how a routine DGX OS update left my Acer GN100 stuck in a boot loop, and how I managed to recover it without reinstalling the system. A little adventure with GRUB! hshrzd.wordpress.com/2026/11…
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New blog drop! 😊 Operation Snowball 🇨🇳 While sweeping open directories on @etugenio, I found a workspace of an autonomous AI intrusion harness. The TA used a jailbroken DeepSeek agent and ran two weeks of attacks against a European telecom provider: malbearlabs.com/posts/operat…
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Our security researchers built an autonomous cyber vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching pipeline. In a single run with an upcoming cyber model, it validated and generated patches for 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel at a total API cost of $1.2 million.
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Our team has tracked AI's progress in formal verification for over two years, waiting for a project like this to become practical. That time has now come! Formally verified end-to-end execution of a Linux process running an x86 binary statically linked against glibc.
x86 formal verification is coming! The (first?) published machine-checked proof of a security property for the end-to-end execution of a Linux process running an x86 binary statically linked against glibc. And we believe it scales! A joint research project with @zellic_io 🧵👇
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Rebuilt syscall.sh mostly from scratch 26 architectures (it was 4), every Linux release from 3.3 to 7.3, a page for every syscall, and a kernel picker to see the table as it was in, say, 5.10. Also works better on mobile (sorry for neglecting those that messaged me about it years ago) API got a v2 too, with diffs between releases, descriptions, Scalar instead of Swagger and some other stuff. syscall.sh api.syscall.sh/ #linux #kernel #infosec
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Video of my @UnpromptedAU & Bsides Canberra talks out now I built an autonomous N-Day exploit pipeline for the Windows kernel w/ mix of deterministic and AI-led stages. Results were comparable to what Anthropic achieved with Mythos using a much less powerful model.
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To teach a lesson, After Wiz rushed to buy php2shell domain and use its marketing machine to steal the spotlight, I spotted "phpbleed" in a recent Calif tweet and bought phpbleed.com before wiz could pull the same stunt again. A big budget can buy a domain. It shouldn't buy someone else's research credit. If you have contacts at CISA or in the press, do the right thing: make sure the researchers who actually did the work get the recognition they deserve. Hack the planet. Credit the researchers.
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As I promised, Exploiting Reversing (ER) series: article 10 | iOS Security Research (part 01) is available on my blog now: exploitreversing.com/2026/10… The primary source for new articles is blackstormsecurity.com/resea…, but articles will continue to be published on my blog with a one-week delay. Enjoy the reading and have an excellent day. #iOS #VulnerabilityResearch #ExploitDevelopment #ReverseEngineering #KernelSecurity
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Thank you to @UnpromptedAU & @BSidesCbr for inviting me to speak. Being back down under was lovely! You can find the slides for my n-day automated pipeline talk here. I’m at OAIC this week if you want to chat about exploit dev in 2026 and beyond. beautiful.ai/player/-P2q0r-B…
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Here's the fourth part of my blog series on Compiler and LLVM internals. Co-authored with @0xP0ch1ta This blog provides a basic introduction to Machine IR, followed by an in-depth explanation of how to write and run an LLVM Machine Function Pass. Key concepts covered: 1. Machine IR 2. Machine Basic Blocks 3. MachineModuleInfo 4. Target, TargetRegistry and TargetMachine. 5. MIR Parser sh4dy.com/2026/10/04/learnin…
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Exploiting Reversing (ER) Series | Article 10: iOS Security Research (part 01) 223 pages, free. The first article in the series aimed at iOS itself, and the opening of a multi-part sequence. Published on: blackstormsecurity.com/resea… This article will be published on exploitreversing.com/ next week. I would like to thank Ilfak Guilfanov (@ilfak) and Hex-Rays SA (@HexRaysSA) for the continuous support. Hope you enjoy the read! #iOS #Apple #VulnerabilityResearch #ExploitDevelopment #ReverseEngineering
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Letsssss go humans!
If you are doing #FlareOn this year and want to rank yourself against other 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 we made an unofficial leaderboard. Honour system only, but it's something.
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New video: Breaking Obfuscated Binaries with AI Agents: An Attacker's Playbook I'll showcase my strategies for attacking strong protections that cannot be one-shotted. youtube.com/watch?v=oGBj1v8t… Slides & samples: github.com/mrphrazer/binary-…
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Zscaler ThreatLabz has published a technical analysis of the evolution of Vidar’s string obfuscation, from basic XOR to ChaCha20 and, most recently, a lightweight virtual machine combined with custom stream ciphers. Our analysis examines how Vidar changes the virtual machine opcodes, constants, and stream ciphers across builds to hinder static and automated analysis. Read the full technical analysis here: zscaler.com/blogs/security-r…
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In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. We have open-sourced ZCode at github.com/zai-org/ZCode, placing the code under community scrutiny and making ZCode more open and transparent. We sincerely thank the community developers who previously identified issues in ZCode. Going forward, we will establish an ongoing product security vulnerability reporting and response process. We welcome developers to continue reviewing ZCode and reporting potential issues, and we will provide rewards based on the severity of the issues reported. With respect to the code data referenced by the community, we confirm that no such data is retained and that it has never been used for model training. Following the remediation, we invited the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and NSFOCUS to conduct security assessments. The results are as follows: Through its technical assessment, CAICT confirmed that the zcode-prod Alibaba Cloud OSS bucket is in a zero-data state. Security remediation has been completed in the ZCode v3.14.0 client. The Repo Wiki feature has been removed, and the workflow for generating and uploading local repository snapshots has been disabled. NSFOCUS confirmed that all data objects in the zcode-prod Alibaba Cloud OSS bucket, as well as the bucket itself, have been deleted. Remediation has been completed in the ZCode v3.14.0 client. The Repo Wiki entry point and the associated generation workflow have been removed, and no functional path capable of triggering the generation of local repository snapshots or transmitting local files externally was identified. Once again, we sincerely apologize and welcome continued scrutiny from the community. The full security assessment report will be released soon.
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10 years ago today CAPE Sandbox was released... Today we are proud to announce its desktop partner-project CAPEsolo: github.com/CAPESandbox/CAPEs… 🎉 All the power of the sandbox in a desktop application 💪 pip install capesolo
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I am very glad to finally share publicly some interesting research I’ve been doing into ransomware infrastructure TTPs. This has been a long-running collaboration with a trusted partner who we can’t name but deeply appreciate their support. Read it here 👇 team-cymru.com/post/ransomwa…
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2026 has been a busy year for Linux local privilege escalation. New kernel LPEs kept landing, several of them variations on the same idea, and a rule written per CVE was never going to keep pace. So our detection keys on what escalations have in common rather than on what each bug does: - An unprivileged process execs from a world-writable path, then something in that lineage changes uid to 0 - A SUID/SGID binary runs with effective uid 0 while the real user is not root - unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) shows up as a precursor - A shell or interpreter finishes as root out of a user-controlled directory - A binary that should never have been setuid-root gets used the way GTFOBins documents Most of these rules have been shipping for a while, the unshare one since 2022. When we ran this year's public PoCs in the lab, several tripped rules that predate them. The blog covers the general LPE categories and the logic behind each, a walk through of this year's CVEs with the rules that fired and why, where the layers need tuning, and the framework ready to use. Full framework, EQL logic, and every rule mapped by @RFGroenewoud : go.es.io/4ywkzaR
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I'm thrilled to make Silverseal public!. It is among the first publicly available UEFI bootkit research frameworks for Linux-based systems to demonstrate an end-to-end path from GRUB to a running Rust kernel-module rootkit: github.com/Idov31/Silverseal 1/3
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