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Vulnerability Researcher & Exploit Developer

Priyan S.

Security researcher focused on Windows kernel internals, vulnerability discovery, exploit architecture, and adversarial simulation research.

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CVE CVE-2025-60419
Speaker Nullcon Goa 2026
Focus Windows Kernel Security
Research Adversarial Simulation
About

I research exploit paths, vulnerable drivers, and the mechanics behind modern Windows security boundaries.

My work centers on independent research, proof-of-concept tooling, technical documentation, and presenting complex vulnerability research in a clear, useful way. This portfolio focuses on public research, publications, skills, and education.

Experience

Independent security consulting and exploit research.

Dec 2025 - Present Remote

Vulnerability Researcher & Exploit Architect

Researching Windows user-mode to kernel-mode attack surfaces, vulnerable driver behavior, exploit-chain reliability, and bypass implications across modern platform protections.

  • Discovered multiple vulnerable-driver patterns spanning denial-of-service and privilege-escalation primitives.
  • Designed exploit-chain research around protections such as VBS, SMEP, SMAP, and kernel control-flow hardening.
  • Produced technical documentation explaining vulnerability root causes and exploit-development lifecycle decisions.

Recognition

Public work and published research.

CVE

CVE-2025-60419

Published driver vulnerability record listed by CVE.

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Talk

Demystifying Driver Vulnerability Hunting

Selected as a Nullcon Goa 2026 speaker session on driver research.

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Publication

Acoustic Shellcodes

Research on audio-based shellcode transformation, published on Zenodo.

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Blog

RIP Manipulation

Technical writing on expanding hunting horizons through instruction-pointer manipulation research.

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Research

Selected independent projects.

APT Simulation Toolchain

Modular adversary-simulation research exploring persistent threat-chain behavior, payload staging, evasion layers, and kernel-driver integration in controlled lab environments.

Evasion Engineering Automation

Built automation around API hashing, payload transformation, and telemetry-based detection checks to study how implementation choices affect analysis outcomes.

Driver Vulnerability Research

Focused on vulnerable-driver discovery, Windows internals, and exploit-path analysis across user-mode to kernel-mode boundaries.

Skills

Technical focus areas.

Reverse Engineering

Ghidra, WinDBG, vulnerability triage, root-cause analysis

Exploit Design

Windows kernel/user-mode exploitation, BYOVD research, ROP chaining, PIC shellcode

Adversarial Simulation

C2 development research, payload obfuscation, EDR/AV evasion studies, privilege escalation

Systems

Windows internals, kernel APIs, Linux, C, Python

Education

Computer science foundation.

MIT Art, Design and Technology University

Bachelor's in Computer Science & Engineering

2024 - 2028

Contact

Public profiles and writing.

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