A study on common malware families evolution in 2012
Marius Barat, Dumitru{-}Bogdan Prelipcean, Dragos Gavrilut, "A study on common malware families evolution in 2012." J. Comput. Virol. Hacking Tech., 2013.
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Work experience
- 2014 - Present: Team Lead, Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab
- Bitdefender
- Duties included:
- Design and implementation of detection techniques and systems.
- Detection of non-executable files.
- File-less attack detection.
- Remote scanning and cloud based detection framework - design and implementation.
- Security analitics engines - detection guidance.
- Knowledge transfer between academia and industry on threat detection topics.
- Fall 2019 - Present: Teaching Assistant
- Faculty of Computer Science, “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iași
- Seminaries and Practical works:
- Formal Languages, Automata and Compilers
- Advanced Programming (Java)
- Android Programming
- Spring 2013 - Fall 2019: Teaching Collaborator
- Faculty of Computer Science, “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iași
- Seminaries and Practical works:
- Formal Languages, Automata and Compilers
- Advanced Programming (Java)
- Android Programming
- Statistics and Probability Theory
- June 2009 - Sept 2014 - Malware/Security Researcher
- Bitdefender
- Duties:
- Malware analysis
- Detection design and implemenation.
- Forensics and remediation.
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science, University Paris-Est Creteil, 2023 (expected)
- M.S. in Information Security, “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, 2013
- B.S. in Computer Science, “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, 2011
Publications
An Automatic Updating Perceptron-Based System for Malware Detection
Marius Barat, Dumitru{-}Bogdan Prelipcean, Dragos Gavrilut, "An Automatic Updating Perceptron-Based System for Malware Detection." In the proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2013, Timisoara, Romania, September 23-26, 2013, 2013.
A Practical Approach on Cleaning-Up Large Data Sets
Marius Barat, Dumitru{-}Bogdan Prelipcean, Dragos Gavrilut, "A Practical Approach on Cleaning-Up Large Data Sets." In the proceedings of 16th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2014, Timisoara, Romania, September 22-25, 2014, 2014.
A Study on Techniques for Proactively Identifying Malicious URLs
Adrian{-}Stefan Popescu, Dumitru{-}Bogdan Prelipcean, Dragos Gavrilut, "A Study on Techniques for Proactively Identifying Malicious URLs." In the proceedings of 17th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2015, Timisoara, Romania, September 21-24, 2015, 2015.
Improving Malware Detection Response Time with Behavior-Based Statistical Analysis Techniques
Dumitru{-}Bogdan Prelipcean, Adrian{-}Stefan Popescu, Dragos Gavrilut, "Improving Malware Detection Response Time with Behavior-Based Statistical Analysis Techniques." In the proceedings of 17th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2015, Timisoara, Romania, September 21-24, 2015, 2015.
Improving Detection of Malicious Office Documents Using One-Side Classifiers
Silviu Vitel, Gheorghe Balan, Dumitru{-}Bogdan Prelipcean, "Improving Detection of Malicious Office Documents Using One-Side Classifiers." In the proceedings of 21st International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2019, Timisoara, Romania, September 4-7, 2019, 2019.
Preventing File-Less Attacks with Machine Learning Techniques
Alexandru Bucevschi, Gheorghe Balan, Dumitru{-}Bogdan Prelipcean, "Preventing File-Less Attacks with Machine Learning Techniques." In the proceedings of 21st International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC 2019, Timisoara, Romania, September 4-7, 2019, 2019.