Name: Look Ma, No IDA! Malware Analysis Without Reverse Engineering
Start: 2025-06-03T15:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-03T15:50:00-0400

Streaming: https://mssvideo.vcu.edu/RVAsec

Tuesday June 3, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT

Downstairs, Madison / Jefferson / Monroe

Do you think malware analysis is out of your reach because assembly code looks like reading the matrix? Fear not, this talk will convince you that learning assembly code is not the best place to start your malware analysis journey. For starters, the modern malware landscape is diverse and malicious code isn’t always compiled into assembly. Not every use case for malware analysis requires a deep dive and there are many great tools and services that provide information about a malware sample you can build your analysis on.

If you work as an incident responder, detection engineer, threat hunter, or intel analyst, you probably already do some malware analysis but don’t realize it. And if you don’t but would like to, this talk will discuss the tools and knowledge you should focus on first before embarking on groking the intel x86 manual.

Speakers

Christina Johns

Principal Malware Analyst, Red Canary

Christina Johns is a Principal Malware Analyst at Red Canary with 15 years experience. Prior to becoming a malware analyst she worked in a variety of areas including web application assessment, android forensics, and incident response. Her research interests lie at the intersection... Read More →

Tuesday June 3, 2025 3:00pm - 3:50pm EDT
Downstairs, Madison / Jefferson / Monroe

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RVAsec 14

Christina Johns

Attendees (6)

RVAsec 14

Christina Johns

Attendees (6)

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