Automated Malware Analysis Virtualization Platform

Designed and built an automated malware analysis platform at Independent Security Evaluators for systematic testing of antivirus products. The platform automated the full testing lifecycle: walking through VM snapshots, injecting malware samples into isolated virtual machines, capturing screenshots after configurable timeouts, and collecting and parsing logs for structured analysis reports.

The system leveraged VMware CLI automation tools to orchestrate large numbers of test runs across controlled virtual machine environments. A companion log parsing framework collected the results of each analysis run and generated structured reports for evaluation.

Results from this testing infrastructure were used in nationally published evaluations of antivirus products.