:~$ whoami
Pratinav Chandra|
Hey There! I'm Pratinav, a Security Engineer passionate about Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering :)
I thrive on the challenge of identifying elusive threats within complex environments and translating threat intelligence and research into high-quality detections. I also enjoy custom tool development and automation!
I strongly believe in giving back to the community and love contributing to open source security projects, attending and volunteering at security conferences, and writing about new things I learn and implement during my time working in the Cybersecurity industry!
In my free time, I like to play guitar and compose music!
:~$ cat side_quests.txt
- Exploring: Detection Engineering, macOS Security
- Currently Reading: The Art of Mac Malware ~ Patrick Wardle, Practical Threat Detection Engineering ~ Packt
- Ongoing Courses: Detection Engineering Masterclass ~ Anthony Isherwood
- Currently Building: A tool to test macOS sigma rules, macOS malware simulations
:~$ cat history.txt
CS Research Mentorship Scholar @ Google
Security Engineering Intern @ Sigma Computing ~ Threat Detection & Response
Cybersecurity Graduate Student @ University of Maryland, College Park
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst @ Dell ~ Network Security Engineering
Computer Science Undergraduate @ Manipal University, India
:~$ cat projects.txt
Home Cybersecurity Lab
Personal Designed and implemented a home cybersecurity lab from scratch to test deployments, vulnerabilities, and open-source tools.
DIY USB-C Rubber Ducky
Personal Built a USB-C DIY version of the Hak5 USB Rubber Ducky using a Raspberry Pi Pico with a 3D-printed exterior. Developed malware payloads targeting different operating systems for adversary simulation.
pxymon
Dell Technologies Implemented a command-line tool for security analysts to troubleshoot and identify issues related to web proxy infrastructure and web-based traffic automatically by parsing security policies based on keywords to search through the configuration faster and deploy changes at scale.
iocminer
Personal A python tool that analyzes a supplied pcap file and attempts to collect all possible indicators of compromise and runs reputation checks. It generates an HTML incident report containing all possible malicious traffic and a list of IoCs found which saves time and provides a good starting point while working on a security incident.
patchlog
Personal A powershell script that extracts patching history and last boot time from multiple windows servers using PS remoting.
dnsmon
Personal Python script to monitor and log all DNS queries on a system. Can be used to collect DNS requests from a system during dynamic malware analysis.
emojicipher
Personal A simple cipher that uses emojis to encrypt plain text messages. Can be used for data exfil to Telegram, maybe? 😉
:~$ cat misc.txt
Open Source Contributions
Technical Content Writer @ InfoSec Write-ups
Researched and published technical write-ups for the largest Cybersecurity publication on medium.com with over 31k followers • Read my blog
Volunteer @ Security Conferences
BSides NoVA 2023 • JawnCon 2023 • BSides Philly 2023
:~$ cat fun_stuff.txt
"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time." 🎸🎨
I play guitar and love composing ambient, rock and metal music! I also love art, photography and graphic design and take up freelance projects whenever I can find the time!