Malware researcher at Brazilian Air Force
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Rafael Salema Marques (SWaNk) is an old-school VXer who tends to define himself as a malware enthusiast. He has been coding malware since the early 2000s.
His contributions bridge the dark technical underground with rigorous scientific methodology. Over his career, he has published code and research in prestigious hacker e-zines including 29A and Phrack Magazine. Additionally, he already contributed to the LOLBAS project, discovering and documenting novel ways to weaponize native OS executables. Academically, he did his MSc research at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) focused on employing an artificial immune system approach to detect advanced rootkit activities and covert data exfiltration. Building on this foundation, his PhD research introduced a novel method for detecting highly evasive pivot attacks in complex networks. SWaNk is always available for coffee, beer, and malware projects.
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