14th and 15th February, 2025
Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki Finland
Build a Debugger from Scratch
Robert Simmons
This workshop focuses on how to build a debugger from scratch. It will look at various types of debuggers used for malware analysis followed by an in-depth walkthrough of building a Windows debugger from scratch using Python in JupyterLab.
Robert Simmons
Robert Simmons is Principal Malware 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, also known as Utkonos, has a background in Biology, Linguistics, and Russian Area Studies. He has spoken on malware analysis and reverse engineering at many of the top security conferences including BalCCon, DEFCON, HOPE, botconf, and DerbyCon among others. He is also the maintainer of plyara, a YARA rule parser written in pure python as well as x64dbgbinja the official connector integration between x64dbg and Binary Ninja.
