Mohamed Ashraf
Threat Researcher
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolMohamed Ashraf is a threat researcher with seven years of experience specializing in malware analysis, reverse engineering, and applied cryptography, currently investigating threats at Nextron Systems from Cairo. He creates CTF challenges for CTFCreators and maintains a technical blog and GitHub (X-Junior) that showcase hands-on tooling and write-ups beyond typical research reports. Comfortable bridging deep technical reverse engineering with practical detection and attribution, he brings a researcher's rigor to operational security problems. A Cairo-based Ain Shams University computer science graduate, he combines academic grounding with industry practice and an active community-facing footprint in CTF and threat research.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Ain Shams University
Github Skills (22)
monitoring10
scanner10
threat-hunting10
splunk10
signature10
security10
threat-intelligence10
elasticsearch10
ids10
hash10
logging10
rule10
yara10
database9
rsa5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
X-Junior/X-Junior.github.io
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 79 pushes in 1 month
X-Junior/sigma
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Main Rule Repository
Contributions:125 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 11 months
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