Victor Marak

Victor SR Marak is a security researcher and electronic musician. He likes to make and break software. He was into music production prior to joining the AV industry recently. He plays the piano and loves composing music of all genres.His debut EP 'My Never Ending Wish' under moniker 'Emotion Coder' is out soon on Beatport Exclusive Releases on 30th October 2012. He can be reached at victormarak.wordpress.com

Articles from Victor Marak

Writing Your Own Parser

August 10, 2013

Writing Data Format Parsers [pkadzone zone="main_top"] Abstract File format parsing and converting for further processing is a fundamental activity in many

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Machine Learning Part 3: Ranking

April 4, 2013

INTRODUCTION: In the previous article, we saw the utility of Naïve Bayes Rule for malware classification. While simple to understand and implement, we have

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Machine Learning : Naïve Bayes Rule for Malware Detection and Classification

March 29, 2013

ABSTRACT: This paper presents statistics and machine learning principles as an exercise while analyzing malware. Conditional probability or Bayes' probabili

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Building Custom Controls in C# - Part 2

March 8, 2013

ABSTRACT This article will enable you to understand parallel axis graphs and how you might want to implement a fully functional, albeit basic, yet effective

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Building Custom Controls in C# - Part 1

March 7, 2013

ABSTRACT Custom UI Controls require a good grasp of GDI+, collections, delegates/events and smart use of multithreading facilities provided by the C# languag

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CMD.EXE – ‘LOOPS’ - PART III

February 20, 2013

ABSTRACT: This article delves into FOR loops in all their weirdness. [pkadzone zone="main_top"] The loop playground CMD.exe provides FOR loops tha

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Command line for Windows malware and forensics

January 18, 2013

Abstract: WMIC has completed more than a decade of existence without having the limelight in terms of its features, though windows command line geeks hav

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Leveraging the command line for windows: malware analysis and forensics. Part I

January 9, 2013

cmd.exe - Leveraging the command line for windows: malware analysis and forensics. Part I Abstract : The command prompt for windows is a dark horse of sort

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Hexed – Working effectively in the hex editor

December 10, 2012

I love my hex editor! I mean I really do. As reverse engineers and binary explorers, the hex editor is arguably the most used tool for human binary reconnais

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