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!

Thursday, June 5

From 08h30: Welcome  coffee

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

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

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

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

11h00 – 11h30: Coffee  break

11h30 – 12h20: Invited speaker – 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 Transfert au Campus Cyber

14h30-15h00: Gregoire Menguy (CEA List) Binsec: A Reverse Engineering Point of View

15h00-16h00: Focus on DefMal Platforms – presentations, demo, discussion.

-Threat Nemesis (15’) – Poneypot (15’) – GoatTracer (15’) + Discussions

16h00-16h30:  Coffee break 

16h30: Dataset Brainstorming Session: Listing and Mapping Resources

17h30-18h00: Bureau DefMal

19h00: Dinner together

Friday, June 6

From 08h30- Welcome coffee

9h00 – 9h50: Invited speaker – Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, The Threat Actor Naming Mess

09h50-10h10: Vincent Raulin (CentraleSupélec/IRISA) – Learning and Using Expert Knowledge with Machine Learning: CROISSANT

10h10-10h40: Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel (Université Catholique de Louvain) – Static, Dynamic, Symbolic: Exploring Binary Representations for machine learning classification

10h40-11h00: Coffee break

11h00-11h30: Sébastien Killian (CentraleSupelec/IRISA) – A Deep Dive into Offensive Security Datasets: Examples and Methodology

11h30 – 12h00: Yufei Han (INRIA/IRISA) – Does Code LM really understand Code

12h00-12h30: Sébastien Larinier (Université de Lorraine, LORIA) – Dive in stalkerware ecosystem

12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break 

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

14h30 – 15h00: Leo Bertrand, (Université de Lorraine, LORIA) – The Use of LLMs to Automate Cyberattacks

15h00 – 15h30: Jean-Marie Mineau (CentraleSupelec/IRISA) – Android of Theseus: Patching applications to improve analysis

15h30 – 15h50: Coffee break 

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

16h30 : Conclusions

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