I’m a cybersecurity learner focused on:

• 🔐 Web application penetration testing
• 🕳️ Red team recon & automation
• 🧩 Cryptography & steganography challenges
• 🧬 DFIR (Digital Forensics & Incident Response)
• 🛠️ Building tooling to accelerate offensive workflows

Currently:

• 🚧 Building: Phantom_Recon (modular red-team recon automation)
• 🎯 Grinding paths & rooms on TryHackMe to deepen practical knowledge
• 👥 Competing with my CTF team: Binary_Beasts
• 🧠 Always looking for harder problems to reverse, decode, break (ethically), or defend

Pronouns: he/him

Languages: Python C++
Pentest / Offensive: Burp Suite Gobuster Nmap wfuzz sqlmap
Crypto / Stego: CyberChef Ghidra HxD zsteg steghide
Reverse / Forensics: Autopsy Brim NetworkMiner Wireshark strings binwalk
Cracking: John the Ripper hashcat
Other: Git Linux ghidra

I actively participate in CTFs to sharpen fundamentals through real-world style challenges.

Events / Platforms:

• 🎯 PicoCTF
• 🎯 US Cyber Games Competitive Season
• 🎯 Hackfinity CTF
• 🎯 Industrial Intrusion CTF

📓 Team writeups & journey:
(Replace this with the correct working link – your current URL contains spaces, which break the link.) https://waris206.github.io/Binary_Beasts-CTF-Writeups/
If the repository/page has a different slug, update accordingly.

A modular recon automation tool aimed at:

• Enumerating domains / subdomains
• Passive + active data collection
• Filtering noise to highlight exploitable surfaces
• Designed for extensibility (plug-in style modules)

Planned Stack / Features:

• Python-based module orchestration
• Async tasks (e.g., aiohttp)
• Output normalization (JSON + Markdown report generation)
• Optional integration with tools like amass, subfinder, httpx

(Once you publish, add: demo GIF, quickstart, core modules table.)

I prefer:

• Breaking → Documenting → Automating → Teaching
• Converting manual recon steps into reproducible tooling
• Keeping notes in structured, repeatable formats (Markdown + scripts)
• Diving deeper when something “just works” (understanding the why)

Open to:

• Building lightweight security tooling
• Joint CTF participation
• Writing / reviewing security content
• Experimental research (enumeration, obfuscation, detection)

If you have an idea → open an issue or send an email.

• 📧 Email: akashwaris.cybersec@gmail.com
• 💼 LinkedIn: Muhammad Akash Waris
• 🛰️ TryHackMe: XORgeist

All activities I conduct are within legal and ethical boundaries.
Content here is for educational and defensive security purposes only.
Never test systems without explicit authorization.