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INDEPENDENT RESEARCH & CONSULTING BY MATTHEW KIRKLAND

Decoding threats. Engineering defenses.

I am an independent security researcher, threat investigator, and systems developer. I work on malware command-and-control tracking, binary triage, reverse engineering, DNS telemetry, and secure infrastructure for active environments.

Core Expertise

Security & Threat Research

Threat Intel & OSINT

Tracking threat actors, dissecting campaigns, compiling detection matrices, and turning malware command-and-control telemetry into usable security research.

Reverse Engineering

Building binary-analysis tooling for Ghidra, Radare2, and ILSpy, including MCP-driven triage workflows for malware and suspicious binaries.

DNS Telemetry & Research

Analyzing DNS threat telemetry, mapping domain reputation matrices, and conducting threat research under specialized external contracts for domainintelligence.uk and ADAMnetworks.

Secure IT & Managed Services

Securing, architecting, and managing commercial IT environments, networks, and security infrastructure under external contract for Nerds On Site.

Matthew Kirkland

Operational Focus

Research, telemetry, and tooling

I work independently on security research, threat investigation, and systems development. Most of the work sits around malware behavior, DNS telemetry, secure infrastructure, and the practical problems that fall between those areas.

My client work is contract-based and technical. For ADAMnetworks, I analyze threat telemetry and malware behavior. For domainintelligence.uk, I work on DNS reputation mapping and telemetry tracking. With Nerds On Site, I help secure, architect, and manage commercial IT environments.

My personal projects sit outside client work, but they show the same pattern. Derp.ca is a malware infrastructure tracker and research notebook. It tracks C2 hosts, distribution hosts, ransomware claims, indicators, and writeups from sandbox output and community threat intelligence. The YARA rules are based on that research.

RogueBinary.com is the public reference for Rogue Binary MCP. The Ghidra, Radare2, and ILSpy servers are built for agent-driven reverse engineering: bounded output, cached backends, persistent analysis sessions, and focused binary triage.

Derp.ca Feeds

Research and daily tracking

Two live feeds from Derp.ca: long-form research on one side, daily cybercrime briefings on the other.

Research Feed

Security Research

Longer malware research, reverse engineering notes, campaign writeups, and indicators. Cybercrime Daily posts are kept out of this feed.

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Open Derp archive

Daily Feed

Cybercrime Daily

Daily briefings covering C2 observations, ransomware claims, vulnerability notes, and active security news.

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Open Derp archive

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