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DESCRIPTION:   'Title: Smart Contracts\, Smarter Malware: Automating Recon 
 on\n   Blockchain-Based C2\n   Tags: Malware Village | Creator Talk/Panel\
 n   When: Friday\, Aug 7\, 14:05 - 14:45 PDT\n   Where: LVCCW Level 1 Hall
  2 600 (Malware Village) Talks - [1]Map\n\n   Description:\n\n   Threat ac
 tors are moving their command-and-control (C2) infrastructure\n   to the b
 lockchain\, where smart contracts are immutable\, globally\n   accessible\
 , and completely immune to traditional takedowns. Instead of\n   reaching 
 out to attacker-controlled servers\, modern malware families\n   query pub
 lic blockchain RPC endpoints to retrieve C2 instructions\n   written direc
 tly into smart contracts across a variety of ecosystems.\n   No attacker s
 erver\, no domain to seize\, no hosting provider to\n   contact.\n\n   In 
 this talk\, we break down our investigation into malware families\n   acti
 vely utilizing multi-chain smart contracts as an evasive C2\n   channel. W
 e will cover how we analyzed network traffic to identify\n   decentralized
  communication patterns\, queried live contract methods to\n   extract rea
 l-time C2 data\, and used cross-chain bytecode analysis to\n   map shared 
 infrastructure across multiple samples.\n\n   We will demonstrate a unifie
 d framework that consolidates these\n   individual recon methodologies\, a
 utomating the extraction\, tracking\,\n   and reverse-engineering of multi
 -chain blockchain-based malware\n   infrastructure.\n\n   Speakers:Sai Sat
 hvik Ruppa\,Chris Navarrete\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Sai Sathvik Ruppa\, Staff S
 ecurity Researcher at Palo Alto\n   Networks\n\n   Sai Sathvik Ruppa is a 
 Staff Security Researcher at Palo Alto Networks\n   and a recent M.S. grad
 uate in Information Security from Carnegie\n   Mellon University. He speci
 alizes in vulnerability detection and\n   malware analysis\, leveraging hi
 s expertise to identify\, analyze\, and\n   mitigate advanced cyber threat
 s.\n\n   SpeakerBio:  Chris Navarrete\, Senior Principal Security Research
 er -\n   CDSS Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) at Palo Alto Networks\n\n  
  Chris Navarrete is a Senior Principal Security Researcher within the\n   
 Advanced Threat Prevention team at Palo Alto Networks. His work\n   center
 s on cutting-edge research in cybersecurity\, particularly in\n   threat d
 etection and malware analysis. Previously\, he served as an\n   adjunct pr
 ofessor of computer science at San Jose State University\,\n   teaching So
 ftware Security Technologies. He holds a Master of Science\n   in software
  engineering with a specialization in cybersecurity from\n   San Jose Stat
 e University. Chris has presented at major industry\n   conferences\, incl
 uding Black Hat Asia\, the Computer Antivirus Research\n   Organization (C
 ARO)\, the Cyber Threat Alliance's Threat Intelligence\n   Practitioners (
 TIPS) conference\, and Black Hat Arsenal\, where he\n   introduced and rel
 eased BLACKPHENIX — a framework designed to\n   automate malware analysi
 s workflows.\n\n   '\n\n   1. #LVCCW_Level1_Hall2\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Malware Village - LVCCW Level 1 Hall 2 600 (Malware Village) Talks
SUMMARY:Smart Contracts\, Smarter Malware: Automating Recon on Blockchain-B
 ased C2
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