ic3qu33n (@nikaroxanne) / X

ic3qu33n

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ic3qu33n

@nikaroxanne

reverse engineer | hacker | vx artist | malware witch | my artistic process is a daemon process. @[email protected]

Joined June 2013

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@nikaroxanne
Jul 26, 2025
seeing my @vxunderground Black Mass article “EFI Byte Code Virtual Machine - A Monster Emerges” in the print copy of vol III at long last has me verklempt. All the blood,sweat+tears that I poured into writing the first UEFI EBC virus were v worth it. 🖤
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@nikaroxanne
May 24, 2024
slides from my ⁦@offensive_con⁩ talk are now live, along with 2 of my PoCs: self-replicating UEFI apps written in x64 asm + arm64 asm. SMM callout PoCs will be posted in the coming weeks as part of my upcoming UEFI blog series ⁦@LeviathanSec⁩
GitHub - ic3qu33n/OffensiveCon24-uefi-task-of-the-translator: OffensiveCon 2024 Repo, contains PoCs...
From github.com
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@nikaroxanne
May 14, 2024
thank you @LukasHermannBFS @yubiguel + the entire team for an incredible @offensive_con . I poured my heart+soul into my uefi xdev research and I’m overwhelmed by the amazing response to my talk, inspired by convos w world class hackers, + grateful to be part of this community 🖤
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@nikaroxanne
May 10, 2024
hell yeah my OffensiveCon talk was a success!! Thank you so much to everyone for the great feedback! And a massive thank you to the outstanding @offensive_con team for making this such an incredible experience 🖤✨looking forward to all the great talks tomorrow
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@offensive_con
May 10, 2024
UEFI and the Task of the Translator: Using Cross-Architecture UEFI Quines as a Framework for UEFI Exploit Development by @nikaroxanne is now live!
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ic3qu33n
@nikaroxanne
Jun 7, 2024
The recording of my @offensive_con talk “UEFI and the Task of the Translator: Using cross-architecture UEFI quines as a framework for UEFI exploit development” is now on YouTube ✨
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@nikaroxanne
Jan 20, 2024
my tmp.0ut article+ PoC are now live 🖤 read about historical Linux vx techniques+how I adapted them. My PoC Linux virus gospel is written in x86_64 asm + uses @silviocesare text segment padding infection technique to infect PIE ELF binaries on a modern Linux host! tysm @tmpout
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@tmpout
Jan 20, 2024
An End of the Week treat! We are pleased to push the final paper to tmp.0ut Vol. 3: "u used 2 call me on my polymorphic shell phone" by @nikaroxanne This paper explores historical Linux VX techniques and applies them to modern day, you won't want 2 miss! tmpout.sh/3/12.html
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@nikaroxanne
Apr 9, 2024
So excited to be presenting at OffensiveCon this year! My talk is a deep dive on UEFI RE + exploit dev, using Walter Benjamin’s essay as a framing device for cross-architecture UEFI exploitation techniques. Come learn about UEFI asm programming, exploit dev for SMM vulns and more
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@offensive_con
Apr 9, 2024
UEFI and the Task of the Translator: Using Cross-Architecture UEFI Quines as a Framework for UEFI Exploit Development by @nikaroxanne offensivecon.org/speakers/2024/…
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ic3qu33n
@nikaroxanne
Jun 3, 2024
drinking pálinka and drawing uefi heap diagrams at the bar is this season’s hottest new way to do brunch
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@nikaroxanne
May 28, 2024
v excited to be speaking at @reconmtl again this year! My talk “GOP Complex: Image parsing bugs, EBC polymorphic engines and the Deus ex machina of UEFI exploit dev” is a UEFI RE+exploit dev deep dive w/ a focus on new+creative UEFI exploit dev techniques cfp.recon.cx/recon2024/talk…
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@nikaroxanne
Sep 14, 2023
The recording for my @reconmtl talk “Portrait of the artist as a young vx-er: This painting is an MBR bootkit” is now up. Merci to the REcon team for posting the recordings + for all their work in making the conference so fantastic.
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@nikaroxanne
Aug 25, 2023
Repo for my @reconmtl talk slides+demo code is up. It’s a WIP so ⭐️ it for all the updates (diabolical polymorphism++): github.com/ic3qu33n/miche… Bootkit can be run on an emulator or real hardware. Merci x1000 à @reconmtl for having me as a speaker this year. À la prochaine✨[1/n]
GitHub - ic3qu33n/michelangelo-reanimator: Michelangelo REanimator bootkit and REcon 2023 talk...
From github.com
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@nikaroxanne
Feb 18, 2024
I’ve been writing UEFI exploits and listening to Kim Petras all weekend. It’s been fucking lit.
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@nikaroxanne
Mar 25, 2024
recently I’ve been getting back into writing arm assembly for some new uefi exploits and it’s bringing me back to life stay tuned 4 the chaos that the barrel shifter and I have in store… 😈
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@nikaroxanne
Dec 9, 2022
ty @HushCon 4 having me speak+ty to every1 I met who made my 1st Hushcon/1st con speaker experience siq. V happy 4 the gr8 feedback+dialogue re: my 16-bit MS-DOS malware RE talk. I tried writing out my feelings then I wrote a lil bb COM program instead, xoxo ic3qu33n
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