Workshop DefMal 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the 3rd annual DefMal workshop, organized as part of the PEPR Cybersecurity – DefMal project. The event will take place at EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, on June 5–6, 2025. This workshop is an opportunity to bring together our teams from Nancy, Rennes, Paris, Sophia Antipolis, as well as our invited guests, to exchange ideas and share progress on our common topic: Combating Malware .

We look forward to seeing you in Sophia Antipolis!

From 08h30: Welcome  coffee

9h00 – 9h20: Workshop introduction by Jean-Yves Marion, Scientific Responsible for the DefMal 

9h20 – 9h40: Aurélien Francillon (Eurecom), REV project presentation. 

9h40-10h10: Géraud Canet (CEA) – French PEPR ecosystem 

10h10 – 11h00: Juan Caballero (IMDEA Software Institute) – Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Abuse by Malware

11h00 – 11h30: Coffee  break

11h30 – 12h20: Luca Demetrio (University of Genoa) – Pick Two: Robustness, Accuracy, Generalization in Malware Detection with AI

12h30 – 14h00: Lunch time

14h00-14h30: François Teyssier et Michel Mauny (INRIA): PTCC – Programme de transfer du Campus Cyber.

14h30-15h10: Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel (Université catholique de Louvain) – Static, Dynamic, Symbolic: Exploring Binary Representations for machine learning classification

Researches associated to DefMal talks

15h10-15h40: Yufei Han (INRIA) – Does Code LM really understand Code

15h40 – 16h10: Gregoire Menguy (CEA List) – Binsec: A Reverse Engineering Point of View

16h30-17h00:  Coffee break 

DefMal PhD Talks 

17h00-17h30: Sébastien Killian (CentraleSupelec/INRIA) – A Deep Dive into Offensive Security Datasets: Examples and Methodology

17h30 – 18h00: Bureau DefMal

19h00: Dinner together at L’Esterel (https://www.esterel-plage-restaurant-juan-les-pins.com/)

Friday, June 6

From 08h30- Welcome  coffee

9h00 – 9h50: Juan Tapiador (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) – The Threat Actor Naming Mess

09h50-10h20: Sébastien Larinier (Université de Lorraine/ LORIA) – Dive in stalkerware ecosystem

10h20-11h00: Focus on  Platforms – Android, Goatracer, HoneyPot

11h00 – 11h20: Coffee break

11h20 – 12h20: Brainstorming time: datasets – mode collaboratif pour répertorier, lister, etc.

12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break 

DefMal PhD Talks 

14h00 – 14h30: Jean-Marie Mineau (CentraleSupelec/INRIA) – Android of Theseus: Patching  applications to improve analysis

14h30 – 15h00: Olzhas Zhangeldinov (CNRS/IRIF) – LTL model-checking for Concurrent Self-modifying Malware Detection (visio)

15h00 – 15h30: Leo Bertrand (Université de Lorraine/LORIA) – L’utilisation des LLMs afin d’automatiser les cyberattaques

15h30 – 15h50: Coffee break 

15h50 – 16h20: Shijie Lin (CNRS/IRIF) Reachability Analysis of Upper-Stack manipulating Binary code (visio)

16h20-16h50: Vincent Raulin (CentraleSupelec), titre à venir

 16h50-17h00: Conclusions

Practical Information: EURECOM  Campus SophiaTech,
450 Route des Chappes, CS 50193 – 06904 Biot Sophia Antipolis cedex, FRANCE
https://www.eurecom.fr/en/access

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