Name: Reverse Engineering Rust Malware in 2026
Start: 2026-09-09T14:00:00-0400
End: 2026-09-09T14:40:00-0400

Reverse Engineering Rust Malware in 2026

Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT

Palais des Congrès de Montréal

In the past several years, professional malware reverse engineers have come to a terrible realization: They need to learn how to reverse Rust programs. The widespread adoption of Rust has not only led to an increase in legitimate software targets to study and examine for vulnerabilities, but also an explosion in malware written in Rust.

This talk is a survey of the reverse engineering landscape for Rust malware in 2026. It walks through the analysis of a Rust malware sample, and discuss the techniques that Rust malware authors are using in their programs. It looks at the limitations of program analysis and decompilation tools, which are still largely built to analyze C programs, against Rust binaries. Finally, it discusses the challenges present in teaching Rust reverse engineering to malware reverse engineers, and the differences in mindset, tool adoption, and educational approach between malware reversers and Rust software developers.

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Cindy Xiao

Security Researcher, Decoder Loop

Cindy Xiao is an experienced malware analyst, security researcher, and software developer. She has given talks and workshops on malware reverse engineering at leading cybersecurity conferences, including RECon, RE//verse, and NorthSec. Cindy is the founder of Decoder Loop, a training... Read More →

Wednesday September 9, 2026 14:00 - 14:40 EDT
Palais des Congrès de Montréal

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