VARUN MALAVIA

adkadc@r.postjobfree.com 703-***-**** 9451 Lee Hwy, Apt-705,Fairfax, VA - 22031 linkedin.com/in/varun-malavia SUMMARY

Graduate student doing Masters of Science in Digital Forensics and Cyber Analysis. Seeking employment in the cy- bersecurity domain as a part of the Incident Response Team, Reverse Engineer, Security Analyst or as a Penetration tester

EXPERIENCE

Digital Forensic Research Intern, ADF Solutions Inc Jan 2021 - Present

• Testing the ADF tools to check that all artifacts collected by the tool are correct.

• Researching on new artifacts for different systems & different applications and on how to extract them.

• Writing small programs and scripts to extract those artifacts. Graduate Research Assistant, George Mason University Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

• Ensured proper working of "Hash Project" while working as a tester for CINA lab funded by DHS at George Mason Univeristy.

• Performed manual testing on prexisting and newly created raw images to ensure the output given is correct. Research Assistant, May 2020 - Aug 2020

• Worked under Dr. Simson Garfinkel to create a mail analysis tool which will ease bulk mail analysis and will be useful for digital forensic examiners in law enforcement cases and in civil discovery

• Used Python for forensic extraction with Albert framework and visualization with Emma framework. Use SQL database and made queries to show top senders and receivers and created JSON objects for them.

• Created a time wheel visualization using Python to show density of emails being sent at different time on different days of week.

• Performed forensic analysis of a Windows image and an iOS image for digital corpora website. PROJECTS

Discord Parser for Autopsy

• Developed a third party Autopsy Ingest module which parses cache file for Desktop Application Autopsy. After parsing, it shows messages sent, sender username, Sender ID, channel ID, and timestamps.

• Key Technologies used - Python, Autopsy

Data Collection Scripts(IR)

• Wrote scripts for live data collection in Powershell and Bash which can be useful for Incidence Response (IR) process.

• Key Technologies used - Powershell, Bash

Drive Lite Capstone Project Team Lead

• Designed and developed a SaaS-based android application for users to store and share files on the cloud, for demon- strating interoperability between different cloud providers.

• Key technologies used included Android Studio, Rest API, Google APT script EDUCATION

Master of Science, Digital Forensics and Cyber Analysis Aug 2019 - Present George Mason University GPA: 3.7

Bachelors of Engineering, Computer Engineering Aug 2015 - Jun 2019 University of Mumbai GPA: 3.6

SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, Powershell, Bash, C,C++, Java Applications/Tools: IDA Pro, Olly DBG, Ghidra, Burp Suite, Nmap, Snort, Splunk, Wireshark, Metaspolit Database Management: Firebase, MySQL

Certifications

• CompTIA Security+ : Jul 2020 - Jul 2023

• Microsoft Certified : Azure Security Engineer Associate : Estimated Completion March 2021 Relevant Coursework

• Incidence Response, Malware Analysis,, Penetration Testing, Network Forensics, Forensic Artifact Extraction, Digital Media Forensics, Digital Forensic Analysis

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