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Overview
Work History
Education
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Nihar N. Deshpande

Nihar N. Deshpande

Malware Researcher
Pune

Summary

  • 9 years of experience in Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering.
  • Proficient in Detection technologies.
  • Good understanding of the threat landscape.
  • Coverage of EDR policies.
  • Understanding of Fileless malware.
  • ATT&CK and D3fend Framework.
  • Reverse Engineering tools: OllyDbg, IDA Pro.
  • Behavioral analysis using Sysinternals Tools.
  • Network monitoring and packet analysis using WireShark. Automation of tedious tasks using Python.
  • Prompt Engineering
  • n8n Agentic Workflows


Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Staff Security Researcher

Druva
03.2025 - Current

Encryption Detection-

  • File header integrity check
  • Entropy and extension monitoring.
  • Incremental backup anomaly detection.

Threat hunt -Threat Watch

  • Manual IOC based scan.
  • Automated IOC crawler.
  • Continuous threat data correlation

Fileless Footprint Detection in Backup

  • YARA based detector
  • Registry keys and Script files

Ransomware Research

  • Blogs

Principal Security Researcher

Quick Heal Technologies
11.2020 - 03.2025

Seqrite Hawkknut EDR-

  • Policy writing and alert monitoring
  • Coverage of ATT&CK framework
  • Good understanding of Lateral movement policies.

Ransomware Protection POC development-

  • Hooking Windows APIs using detours library.
  • DLL Injection
  • Identifying ways to prevent ransomware execution.

Team Lead

Welkin IT Services
12.2015 - 11.2020

Wardwiz Anti-virus

  • Malware Scanner for PE, PDF, LNK file formats
  • Writing signatures as well as repair routines for viruses.
  • Working experience with Ransomware detection.
  • Web Scraping to download files
  • Malware Signature generation utility

Education

MCA -

VIT
Pune, India

BCS -

S.P College
Pune, India

HSC -

A.G Highschool
Dapoli, India

SSC -

R.R Vaidya EMS
Dapoli, India

Skills

  • Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering
  • XDR policies
  • Virus Repair Routines
  • C, C, Python, Assembly
  • OllyDbg, x32Dbg, IDA Pro, Dnspy, WireShark, Sysinternal Suite
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity
  • n8n Agentic Workflows

Blogs and Whitepapers

  • PromptLock: AI-Powered Ransomware and Its Sophisticated Architecture
  • A Detailed analysis of a new version of Darkside Ransomware 2.1.2.3
  • A Paradigm Shift in Endpoint Security with next-gen EDR Solution
  • Analyzing AsyncRAT with ChatGPT

Timeline

Senior Staff Security Researcher

Druva
03.2025 - Current

Principal Security Researcher

Quick Heal Technologies
11.2020 - 03.2025

Team Lead

Welkin IT Services
12.2015 - 11.2020

MCA -

VIT

BCS -

S.P College

HSC -

A.G Highschool

SSC -

R.R Vaidya EMS
Nihar N. DeshpandeMalware Researcher