Bindiya Panwar

I am a Threat Researcher at SonicWall Capture Labs with over 10 years of hands-on experience in malware analysis and cybersecurity. I specialise in PDF and MS Office malware, with deep expertise in static and dynamic analysis, reverse engineering obfuscated binaries, and tracking adversarial evasion techniques used by threat actors.

I started my career at Quick Heal, where I worked on file-infecting viruses, writing detection signatures and repair routines for infected PE files. At Symantec, I was part of the IDS/IPS team, focusing on network-level intrusion detection and threat hunting. For the past seven years at SonicWall Capture Labs, I have been researching document-based malware, reverse engineering malicious payloads, and tracking how threat actors evolve their delivery and evasion strategies.

I hold an M.Tech. in Computer Science (Security) from BITS Pilani, where my research was focused on machine learning for malware detection.

Speaking Experience

1. I have delivered internal threat research presentations at SonicWall, sharing findings on emerging PDF malware campaigns and novel evasion techniques with engineering and threat intelligence teams
2. I have conducted knowledge-sharing sessions on malware analysis methodologies, reverse engineering workflows, and PDF structure analysis
3. I have published five technical threat research reports on the SonicWall Capture Labs blog, communicating complex malware findings to a broad security audience