Aurélien Thierry

Fighting malware involves analyzing large numbers of suspicious binary files. In this context, disassembly is a crucial task in malware analysis and reverse engineering. It involves the recovery of assembly instructions from binary machine code. Correct disassembly of binaries is necessary to produce a higher level representation of the code and th...

Cette thèse porte en premier lieu sur l'analyse et le désassemblage de programmes malveillants utilisant certaines techniques d'obscurcissement telles que l'auto-modification et le chevauchement de code. Les programmes malveillants trouvés dans la pratique utilisent massivement l'auto-modification pour cacher leur code utile à un analyste. Nous pro...

The propagation techniques and the payload of Duqu have been closely studied over the past year and it has been said that Duqu shared functionalities with Stuxnet. We focused on the driver used by Duqu during the infection, our contribution consists in reverse-engineering the driver: we rebuilt its source code and analyzed the mechanisms it uses to...

Reverse-engineering malware code is a difficult task, usually full of the traps put by the malware writers. Since the quality of defense softwares depends largely on the analysis of the malware, it becomes crucial to help the software investigators with automatic tools. We describe and present a tool which synchronizes two related binary programs....