Hi, I’m Tom

I’m a Computer Scientist and PhD student from London

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Oct 4, 2022

Short story about evading Antivirus Detection

Lately I came across an interesting paper where the authors use Reinforcement Learning (RL) to obfuscate malicious Portable Executable (PE) files to evade detection by antivirus (AV) scanners. The authors use actions as, for instance, random byte padding, packing the binary, adding benign strings to the .text section, modifying timestamps, adding function imports, etc… to obfuscate the binary file. After applying these actions, the modified PE file will be checked against an AV to see if the detection rate decreases. Read more
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My name is Tom Ganz and I am currently living in London. I am pursuing my PhD in computer security and machine learning. Feel free to send me an E-Mail using my PGP key.

  • Currently: Network Security Engineer @ Amazon UK and PhD Candidate @ TU Berlin
  • Msc. Computer Science @University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe
  • Bsc. Applied Computer Science @Corporate State University Karlsruhe
  • Reviews for IEEE Access
  • Subreviews for S&P
  • Reviews for CCS AISec
  • AISec CCS Best Paper Award 2021
  • Cooperate State University Karlsruhe 2022: Lecturer for Compiler Engineering
  • SAP Conference on Machine Learning 2022: Explainable Fuzzing
  • SAP Conference on Machine Learning 2022: Graph Autoencoders - on the Hunt for Malicious Commits
  • SAP Development Kick-Off Meeting: Automated Analysis of Source Code Repositories using Machine Learning
  • SAP Conference on Machine Learning 2021: Intelligently Protect the Enterprise - What machines may learn about graphs in your software
  • SAP Security Expert Summit 2021: Intelligently Protect the Enterprise - What machines may learn about graphs in your software

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