Omar Abusabha

About Me

Bio

Security Researcher with 4+ years of hands-on experience in reverse engineering, malware analysis, and embedded systems. As part of my research, developed techniques to bypass ML-based security models, uncovered flaws in decompilers, and re-hosted and analyzed embedded firmware at scale.

Education

  • PhD / Doctor of Philosophy | Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea

    2023-present | Computer Science and Engineering

  • Master of Science | Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea

    2021-2023 | Computer Science and Engineering

Relevant Experience

  • Research Assistant | SoftSec, Sungkyunkwan University

    03.2024 – Present | full time | Gyeonggi, Suwon, South Korea

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    Research Area: 
        
                        Software security, Firmware analysis
    
                        Technical tools: 
        
                          QEMU, Unicorn Engine for emulation and analysis
        
                            Ghidra, angr for binary reverse engineering
    
                             Responsibilities: 
        
                        Analyzing firmware
                      
        
                        
        
                        Identifying and debugging issues in decompilers toolchains

  • Research Assistant | InfoLab, Sungkyunkwan University

    09.2021 – 02.2024 | full time | Gyeonggi, Suwon, South Korea

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    Research Area: 
        Software security, Malware analysis
    Technical tools: 
        QEMU for CPU emulation
        Linux sandboxes for IoT malware analysis
    Responsibilities: 
        Analyzing large-scale IoT malware and ransomware samples
        Identifying behavioral strategies and temporal trends
        Building sandboxes across ARM, I386, MIPS, SPARC, and PPC architectures

Publications

  • A Deep Dive into Function Inlining and its Security Implications for ML-based Binary Analysis (NDSS'26)

Awards & certificates

  • Silver Award in Bug Bounty 2022 – Sungkyunkwan University, Gyeonggi, Suwon
  • Big Data 2020 - Huawei, National Telecommunication Institute Egypt
  • Data Analysis Professional 2020 - Udacity
  • Problem Solving 2020 - HackerRank
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