Stan Hegt
Digital Security Expert & Ethical Hacker at Outflank
's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolStan Hegt is a digital security expert and ethical hacker with over a decade of professional experience and a lifelong hacker’s curiosity that began at age ten. He leads red teaming, adversary simulation, incident response, malware analysis and strategic threat intelligence work for clients across finance, defense and energy, and founded Outflank to apply a pragmatic hacker mindset to enterprise security. Stan has run hundreds of penetration tests and large-scale simulations, built cyber defense and threat intelligence teams, and advised boards through tailored security awareness programs. He is an active researcher and speaker—publishing advisories, supervising academic projects (NFC, EMV, password cracking) and presenting at conferences like Black Hat and Troopers—and was named Microsoft’s Most Valuable Security Researcher in 2020. His open-source contributions include work on EvilClippy, enhancing compatibility and analysis-evasion features for malicious Office document research, underscoring a hands-on focus on offensive techniques to better inform defenses. Based in the Netherlands, he blends deep technical craft with strategic advisory skills to help organizations measure and improve real-world resilience.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc., Information Security Technology, MSc., Information Security Technology at Radboud Universiteit NijmegenMSc., Information Security Technology, MSc., Information Security Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology
Github Skills (8)
macros10
malware10
vba10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
excel9
wordperfect9
msword9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
outflanknl/EvilClippy
Mar 2019 - Jan 2021
A cross-platform assistant for creating malicious MS Office documents. Can hide VBA macros, stomp VBA code (via P-Code) and confuse macro analysis tools. Runs on Linux, OSX and Windows.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:4 releases, 38 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Stan contributed to the development of `evilclippy`, a tool designed for malicious MS Office document creation and analysis evasion. Their work primarily involved modifying the core `evilclippy.cs` file, adding features such as support for new MS Office versions (xls, xlsm, docm, and later versions), and implementing functionalities like a GUI unhide option. These contributions expanded the tool's compatibility and capabilities in the context of manipulating and analyzing MS Office documents for malicious purposes.
stompmacroms-officevbamalware
outflanknl/Presentations
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Presentation material presented by Outflank team members at public events.
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
eventsmemberspresentation
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