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Ho Vi Khanh

Information Security Graduate — Offensive Security

Recent Information Security graduate (University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM) focused on offensive security. Built and exploited OWASP Top 10 vulnerability labs (SQLi, XSS, SSRF) using Burp Suite against DVWA and PortSwigger Labs, and automated reconnaissance workflows with Python, Nmap, and the VirusTotal API. Cisco Ethical Hacker certified, with a published fileless-malware detection framework (Springer Nature) and a working olevba/YARA detection tool as further evidence of a long-term commitment to information security.

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About

Recent Information Security graduate (University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM) focused on offensive security. Built and exploited OWASP Top 10 vulnerability labs (SQLi, XSS, SSRF) using Burp Suite against DVWA and PortSwigger Labs, and automated reconnaissance workflows with Python, Nmap, and the VirusTotal API. Cisco Ethical Hacker certified, with a published fileless-malware detection framework (Springer Nature) and a working olevba/YARA detection tool as further evidence of a long-term commitment to information security.

Web Application Penetration Testing

Hands-on exploitation of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, SSRF) using Burp Suite against DVWA and PortSwigger Labs; Cisco Ethical Hacker certified.

Reconnaissance & Automation

Python workflows for automated reconnaissance using Nmap and the VirusTotal API.

Security Research & Detection Engineering

Built a macro-malware detection tool from scratch (VBA extraction with olevba, obfuscation scoring, YARA rule authoring) and contributed to a published fileless-malware detection framework.

Machine Learning for Security

Python, Scikit-learn, Pandas, XGBoost, LLM integration; applied to phishing and malware detection.

Systems & Infrastructure

Kali Linux, Ubuntu, Windows; Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware, PfSense.

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering in Information Security

    University of Information Technology (UIT), VNU-HCM · 2022 – 2026

    Topics: network security, ethical hacking, machine learning for security. Graduated with "Good" classification.

Certifications

  • Ethical Hacker Cisco Networking Academy, 01/2025
  • Google AI Essentials (V1) Google, 07/2026

Publications

  • Ho, V.-K. et al. (2026). "G-FLEX: A Graph-Based and Fine-Tuned Transformer Framework with Explainable AI for Fileless Malware Detection." Springer Nature Singapore

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Experience

Sep 2025Jan 2026

Research Intern · Trung tam An ninh mang (InSecLab), UIT - VNU-HCM

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • Built and tested OWASP Top 10 vulnerability labs and automated reconnaissance workflows using Python, Nmap, and the VirusTotal API
  • Contributed to G-FLEX, a graph-based fine-tuned transformer framework for fileless malware detection, published by Springer Nature Singapore
  • Developed a phishing detection system combining Random Forest with LLMs over the PILWD-134K dataset
  • Researched ML-based detection of malicious NPM and PyPI supply-chain packages

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Selected Projects

Web Pentest Labs

Practiced and documented OWASP Top 10 exploitation (SQLi, XSS, SSRF) against DVWA and PortSwigger Labs, simulating real-world attack scenarios and analysing server behaviour under attack.

DVWABurp SuitePortSwigger

Macro Malware Detection Tool

Detects malicious Office macros by extracting VBA code with olevba, scoring obfuscation patterns such as Chr() and XOR, and identifying VBA purging via YARA rules.

PythonolevbaYARA

Phishing Website Detection System

Dec 2025

Real-time phishing detection over hybrid URL and HTML features, designed client-side so it does not depend on third-party lookup services. Dataset of 134,000 sites (PILWD-134K).

PythonScikit-learnPandasXGBoostBeautifulSoupLLMs

Network Configuration & Domain System Administration

Mar 2026

Designed a multi-branch internal network and centralised Active Directory domain for high availability and information security; automated GPO security policy deployment.

Windows Server (AD, DNS, DHCP)Ubuntu ServerVMwarePfSense

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Skills

Security Testing

Burp SuiteDVWAPortSwigger LabsNmapOWASP Top 10

Programming & ML

PythonScikit-learnPandasXGBoostBeautifulSoup

Detection Engineering

olevbaYARAVirusTotal API

Systems & Infrastructure

Kali LinuxUbuntuWindows ServerActive DirectoryVMwarePfSense

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Writing

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Get in touch

Reach out at vikhanhho@gmail.com or use the form below.