Asad Ali

TryHackMe Labs & CTF Simulations

Over 100 rooms completed, ranked in the top 3% globally — covering offensive and defensive tradecraft end to end.

• Web application enumeration and login brute forcing
• Log analysis and network forensics investigations

• CTF
• Enumeration
• Forensics
• Blue Team

Python TCP Port Scanner

A custom CLI scanner built for reconnaissance during Red Team engagements.

• Scans 1,000+ ports per minute with socket timeout logic
• CLI input sanitization to prevent malformed target parsing

• Python
• Sockets
• Recon
• Tooling

E-HospitCare System

Final Year Project — a hospital care platform built with a security-first frontend architecture.

• Responsive React interfaces with input sanitization
• Role-based access control across patient and staff views

• React
• RBAC
• Secure SDLC
• FYP

Write-up available on request

Network Traffic Analysis Case Studies

A series of Wireshark, Nmap and Zeek investigations documented as full case studies.

• 81,000+ packets analysed across multiple captures
• DNS latency detection and TCP checksum anomaly triage
• C2 channel port profiling, Log4j and phishing detection

• Wireshark
• Zeek
• Nmap
• Threat Hunting

Snort IPS Live Attack Defense

Live intrusion prevention against simulated attacks, with custom rule authoring.

• Detected SSH brute-force attempts on port 22
• Caught Metasploit reverse shells on port 4444
• Wrote custom reject rules running in live IPS mode

• Snort
• IPS
• Detection Engineering

Write-up available on request

Web Shell Detection with YARA & Loki

Built and validated detection signatures for web shells across a compromised file set.

• Generated custom YARA rules with yarGen
• Scanned hosts with Loki for indicators of compromise
• Validated findings against Valhalla and VirusTotal threat intel

• YARA
• Loki
• Threat Intel
• IOC

Write-up available on request