Melted in Hex is where threats get melted down to their raw bytes.
I’m a malware analyst, reverse engineer, threat hunter, and AI security researcher. The instinct is the same one that’s always driven this work — take the thing apart, understand exactly how it operates, and figure out how to catch it — now pointed at a fast-changing, AI-driven attack surface, with AI in the loop.
What you’ll find here
- Malware analysis & reverse engineering — ransomware teardowns, packer and obfuscation analysis, and hands-on reversing of real-world samples down to their bytes.
- Threat hunting & threat intelligence — tracking campaigns, mapping attacker tradecraft, and turning raw indicators into something actionable.
- AI security — using machine intelligence where it actually helps in threat analysis, and scrutinising it where it doesn’t: the new attack surface around AI agents, MCP, and the software supply chain.
- CTF & FLARE-On write-ups — the puzzles that keep the reversing muscles sharp.
The angle
Security is shifting under our feet. Attackers are automating, supply chains are getting longer, and AI is now on both sides of the fight. The fundamentals don’t change — you still have to read the bytes — but the surface does. This is my working notebook for keeping up with it.
Some of the earliest posts here were originally published on Blogger and have been migrated over, with their original publication dates preserved.
Find me on GitHub.