Joseph C. Opacki is the Technical Lead for the Investigative Analysis Unit's (IAU) Malware Program, which is embedded within the Science and Technology Branch's (STB) Special Technologies and Applications Office (STAO). As such he has been the lead for IAU's technical investigative support to FBI field offices for malware based investigations that have spanned the full scope of counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and criminal investigation. Previous to his employment with the FBI, Mr. Opacki has worked for the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service and the Defense Intelligence Agency on similar cyber threat issues. Mr. Opacki holds a Bachelors of Individualized Study in Multimedia Software Design from George Mason University and a Masters of Information Technology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Edmond Murphy brings eight years of computer programming experience, and three years of experience in the field of Computer Security to The MITRE Corporation. Mr. Murphy has worked for commercial, state, and federal computer forensics and security teams and has developed a specialty in reverse engineering software, both malcious and benign. Mr. Murphy graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and obtained a Masters of Science in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School.

Mr. Murphy will discuss MALICIOUS CODE ANALYSIS TRENDS AND TECHNIQUES. Malicious code continues to evolve in an effort to avoid detection by anti-virus products and by pass the security controls of common operating systems. This presentation will discuss current trends in malicious code as well as techniques used to detect and analyze malicious code that avoids anti-virus detection. Additionally the number of malicious code samples in the wild is far more than any one team of analysts can manually analyze, techniques for automation and correlation of analysis will be discussed and a tool that performs this analysis will be presented.