Yuma Kurogome

Yuma Kurogome is a security researcher at NTT Secure Platform Laboratories. His interest lies in malware detection, analysis (in particular symbolic execution), and anti-analysis; His passion is in honing both defensive and offensive skills while playing the “cat-and-mouse” game of security. Prior to joining NTT, he received his BA degree from Keio University in 2017. When away from computers, he enjoys climbing.

• GitHub

Publications

• EIGER: Automated IOC Generation for Accurate and Interpretable Endpoint Malware Detection [slides]
  Yuma Kurogome, Yuto Otsuki, Yuhei Kawakoya, Makoto Iwamura, Syogo Hayashi, Tatsuya Mori, and Koushik Sen
  Proceedings of the 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC’19)
  San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 2019. (Acceptance rate: 60/266 = 22.6%) (Press release: NTT Technical Review)
• Design and Implementation of Malware Analysis Environment Focused on Reachability of Execution Code
  Yuma Kurogome
  Bachelor Thesis, Keio University, 2017.
  Advisor: Keiji Takeda

A full list can be found at Google Scholar.

Talks

• The Art of De-Obfuscation
  Youth Keynote, The 51st Young Researchers and Engineers Group on Information Science
  Karuizawa, Japan, October 2018.
• PANDEMONIUM: Automated Identification of Cryptographic Algorithms using Dynamic Binary Instrumentation and Fuzzy Hashing
  Youth Session, CODEBLUE 2015
  Tokyo, Japan, October 2015.

Other slides can be found at Speaker Deck.

Teaching Experiences

• Advanced Binary Deobfuscation
  Trainer, Global Cybersecurity Camp Tokyo
  Funabashi, Japan, February 2020.
• Why Cannot Malware Analysis Be Fully-Automated?
  Trainer, Security Camp National Workshop
  Makuhari, Japan, August 2016.
• Malware Analysis with Virtualization
  Trainer, Security Mini Camp
  Okinawa, Japan, December 2015.
• Malware Analysis with Virtualization
  Trainer, Security Camp National Workshop
  Makuhari, Japan, August 2015.

The Global Cybersecurity Camp and the Security Camp are nation-backed training programs for the youth.

Work Experiences

• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
  Research Engineer, May 2017 - Present.
• IIJ Innovation Institute Inc.
  Research Assistant, March 2015 - March 2017.
• Gehirn Inc.
  Parttime Employee, August 2014 - March 2017.
• Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
  Research Internship, August 2014 - December 2014.
  Mentor: Tomonori Ikuse
• FFRI, Inc.
  Internship, September 2013.
• Synclogue Inc.
  R&D System Engineer, May 2013 - July 2014.

Competitions

• HITB2014KUL Capture the Flag: Age of Extinction
  3rd place (mayuge)
  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 2014.
• The 9th Crisis Management Contest
  Best Technical Award (EpsilonDelta)
  Shirahama, Japan, May 2014.
• DEF CON 21 CTF
  6th place (sutegoma2)
  Las Vegas, USA, August 2013.
• SECCON 2013 National Final
  2nd place (EpsilonDelta)
  Tokyo, Japan, March 2013.

Professional Services

• Reviewer:
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Verified reviews can be found at Publons.

Notes

• The old blog 一生あとで読んでろ has been archived. Yet, you can recover it from the commit log ;)
• Currently, I’m not open to new job opportunities.

Last updated on 2020-02-28.