Robert Simmons

Independent malware researcher and threat 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 is a maintainer of plyara, a YARA rule parser written in pure Python.
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Recent Posts from Robert Simmons
November 16, 2020
Tearing Down HWP Files To Expose a Trojan
June 5, 2020
In March of 2020, MalwareHunterTeam discovered a downloader which installed both a KPot infostealer as well as a second payload which was a ransomware variant that used the string "CoronaVirus".
March 23, 2020
Getting Ahead of Ryuk attacks using YARA Rules - Continued
January 31, 2020
Public hosting sites present a challenge for defenders when exploited by adversaries to conceal payloads using various encoding techniques