// operator
Rupesh K. Thakur
Cybersecurity & Ethical Hacking Student
Coventry University (via Softwarica College, Kathmandu)
BSc (Hons) Cybersecurity & Ethical Hacking 2026
// about cosmos
COSMOS is my operational infrastructure a live platform built to aggregate threat intelligence, publish security research, writeups, techniques, experiences and maintain a searchable knowledge base of techniques I use in the field.
// current focus
→AHRIP
Adaptive Human Risk Intelligence Platform
Final-year project: Cybersecurity awareness platform with rule-based adaptive engine, live threat feeds, and employee risk scoring for SME environments.
// field notes
Selected work and engagements
- (01)
SslReq.exe Static malware analysis
.NET backdoor reverse engineering, string deobfuscation, network behaviour reconstruction.
- (02)
Emotet Epoch 2 Dynamic malware analysis
Behavioural sandbox analysis, C2 identification, persistence mechanism documentation.
- (03)
Symfonos:2 APT1 threat emulation
Full kill chain against VulnHub target, 17 MITRE ATT&CK techniques mapped across the engagement.
- (04)
TTCTF ExByte forensics challenge
PCAP analysis, HTTP-based PNG exfiltration via hex-encoded chunks, flag recovery.
- (05)
COSMOS Live cybersecurity intelligence platform
Full-stack build: Next.js 14, Supabase, Vercel. Live CVE feeds, KEV tracking, operator knowledge base.
// focus areas
- Reverse Engineering
- Malware Analysis
- Digital Forensics & IR
- Penetration Testing
- Threat Intelligence
- Web Application Security
// connect