Category Archives: Research

Speaking at NCCC 2024

Next week, I will be speaking at the National Cyber Crime Conference 2024 for the second year in a row. This year Dr. Mariam Khader and myself will be running 4 different investigation workshops, mostly focusing on malware analysis with … Continue reading

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Malware Tools, Tips and Tricks

In the past, I used to maintain a Google Doc with all the tools I use or recommend for my students to use for Malware Analysis. A couple of days ago, while doing a Malware Analysis workshop for NW3C, I … Continue reading

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Windows Sandbox Scripts

Windows Sandbox is an amazing Windows feature that could be used for Malware Analysis. In order to install it you’ll need to follow this blog post here by Microsoft.

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GOADv2 in a VM

Hello, I finally was able to play with the GOAD v2 project and configure it to run within a single VM using nested Virtualization. From the developer of the project “GOAD is a pentest active directory LAB project. The purpose … Continue reading

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Cuckoo VM for Malware Analysis

Cuckoo VM prepared for Malware Analysis Continue reading

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