Hi 😃 I am ElementalX!

A nerd who likes to reverse engineer stuff passionate about Malware, threat hunting, OSINT and low-level Security from 🇮🇳.

• 📍 Threat Intelligence Analyst @Seqrite, Quick Heal, India.

• 📍 Ex-Malware Analyst @Mindtree.

• 📍 Member & Ex-Lead @RIXED LABS.

• 📍 Blogger @Undevs.

• 📍 Senior Volunteer Judge @Trace Labs.

• 📍 Ex-Team-Manager @SECARMY.

• 📍 Community Member @Polyswarm.

• 📍 I have been contributing my best to the communities through my reverse engineering challenges and other blogs.

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Technologies

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Blog Posts

• [02/11/2020] MITRE ATT&CK : The Overview

• [02/12/2020] A quick introduction to YARA Rules

• [28/02/2021] A brief introduction to PE Format

• [07/03/2021] A brief introduction to ELF Format

• [13/03/2021] A brief introduction to Sysmon

• [18/03/2021] A brief introduction on Linker, Loader, Symbol & Symbol Tables

• [19/03/2021] A brief introduction on Threads in Linux

• [21/05/2021] AVR Microcontroller Fundamental speed run

• [21/05/2021] Exploring Sigma Rules

• [21/05/2021] Exploring Ghidra with Baby ELF

• [12-06-2021] ^[Regex &Rust]$

• [19-07-2021] A journey to understand LLVM-IR & experimenting it with Rust

• [27-07-2021] Trying to fit that x64 in one

• [27-08-2022] How expensive is that x86 instruction?

• [29-12-2022] A brief analysis of Hornet Ransomware

• [20-01-2023] A small tale on Anti-RE:Part 0

• [27-02-2023] pkr_ce1a: An unknown packer?

• [02-03-2023] A small tale on Anti-RE: Part 1

• [31-04-2023] Dissecting Exfiltrator 22: Hunting malware Developer

• [31-12-2023] Homeland Justice, Albania, Wiper

  Personal Cheat-Sheets

• Rust Cheat Sheet: The Rust quick reference cheat sheet that aims at providing help on writing basic syntax and methods..

  Articles

• A brief analysis of QuickHeal Update Manager.

• D-Dump : Detecting FreeLibrary Evasion Technique.

Projects

• [01/01/2021] Hawk Base: A threat actor library for enthusiasts built along with AX1AL [ Project Discontinued...]

• [18/04/2021] REZ: A multiple instruction set architecture library for reverse engineers [ Project Discontinued...]

• [05/12/2022] Windows-Toolkit : Various experiments with PE Files & windows OS

• [04/04/2023] D-Dump: Detecting FreeLibrary Evasion Technique using MinidumpWriteDump API.

• [12/03/2023] IDLE-Abuse : A noble technique to abuse undocumented RegisterWaitForInputIdle API for code injection.

• [29/03/2025]A security research tool for generating customized LNK files that leverage LOLBINs (Living Off The Land Binaries) for red team assessments and security testing

  Features

• [Huffpost] Young Indians Are Turning Online Detectives To Try And Crack Missing Person Cases Abroad

• [ic0de Podcast]USING-OS1nt-For-Good

• Hackers Hit Indian Defense, Energy Sectors with Malware Posing as Air Force Invite

• Silent Lynx Using PowerShell, Golang, and C++ Loaders in Multi-Stage Cyberattacks

Talks

• Buzzard Crafting your post-exploitation framework against odds
• 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚒𝚜𝚎 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙵𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙾𝚏 𝙶𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚐 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚎
• UNG0002 - Regional Threat Operations Tracked Across Multiple Asian Jurisdictions

Badges

Senior Judge Badge

Judge - SANS OSINT Search Party CTF

Judge - Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2020

Judge - conINT OSINT Search Party CTF 2020

Judge - National Missing Persons Hackathon Australia 2020

Judge - Global OSINT Search Party CTF 2021

Judge - Global OSINT Search Party CTF