Researches

This page contains links to my researches on various blogs, including, my own.

2024

Kyivstar cyberattack - under the hood of the malicious scripts

2023

Guntior - the story of an advanced bootkit that doesn't rely on Windows disk drivers
Unboxing ProjectSauron's arsenal - inside Remsec rootkit drivers
A review of the latest Win11 IP kernel changes

2022

Dissecting Windows Section Objects
Inside the Windows Cache Manager

2018

Windows 10 RS5 introduces a new Software PTE type
What is a Proto-PTE and how Windows VMM works with it
Why Google Chrome runs so many processes

2017

Windows exploitation in 2016
Finfisher rootkit analysis
Wingbird rootkit analysis
EquationDrug rootkit analysis (mstcp32.sys)
Stuxnet drivers: detailed analysis
GrayFish rootkit analysis

2016

Windows exploitation in 2015
Remsec driver analysis, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
A note about Sednit rootkit

2015

Windows exploitation in 2014

2014

Windows exploitation in 2013

2013

Sality rootkit analysis

2012

Necurs rootkit under microscope
Zegost - analysis of the Chinese backdoor
Analysis of VirTool:WinNT/Exforel.A rootkit
TDI - a new element in old tdss story
OnlineGameHack analysis
Investigation an industrial rootkit incident
Guntior bootkit analysis
ZeroAccess - new steps in evolution
Flame case

2011

Windows NT development story (RU)

2009

TDL3 analysis (with Dr.Web team) [RU]
Notes of the NTFS researcher (RU)
Attacking the Windows cache (RU)

2008

Invisible LKM attacks to Windows XP (RU)
Windows XP VMM research papers [RU]
Includes deep research info about VMM internals

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  • Hyperspace
  • PFN database
  • Sections
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  • WSL
  • VA translation
  • stack