Robert Simmons
Robert Simmons is Principal Malware Researcher at ReversingLabs. With an expertise in building automated malware analysis systems based on open source tools, he has been tracking malware and phishing attacks and picking them apart for years. Robert has spoken on malware analysis at many of the top security conferences including DEFCON, HOPE, botconf, and DerbyCon among others.
Robert, also known as Utkonos, has a background in biology, linguistics, and Russian area studies. He has lived extensively in Russia and Ukraine.
Sessions
This beginner's workshop introduces students to the basics of malware analysis. This includes how to source new malware samples for practice as well as where to find resources for self-directed learning. Students will learn how triage malicious email attachments as well as how to work with automated malware analysis tools. As a capstone exercise, students will learn the basics of manual code reversing using a disassembler and interactive behavioral analysis using a debugger in a controlled lab environment.
This workshop focuses on how to build a debugger from scratch. It will look at various types of debuggers used for malware analysis followed by an in-depth walkthrough of building a Windows debugger from scratch using Python in JupyterLab.