FROM THE LOWEST LAYER TO THE HIGHEST. ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATTACK.
At Quarkslab, depth isn’t a posture. It’s an operational capability.
Our teams combine offensive and defensive expertise across the entire technology stack — from silicon and firmware up to applications, protocols and cloud infrastructure. This full-stack approach lets us analyze any system, any technology, with no blind spot: where others stop at one layer, we cross through all the ones below it.
What makes this depth possible is the combination of two postures rarely found in the same team: the capability of an attacker who probes, bypasses and exploits, and the rigor of a defender who qualifies, understands and protects. Our research engineers don’t choose between the two. They practice both at once.
In practice, this means that a new technology, an unknown component or an opaque system is not an obstacle: it’s a subject for investigation. Our experts combine their specialties — reverse engineering, hardware, cryptography, exploitation, protection — to dissect it, understand its flaws and, as needed, attack it or harden it.
This body of skills feeds our three domains of expertise: offensive simulation, vulnerability research and application protection.
THE MAIN SKILL CATEGORIES
Five families of skills form the foundation of Quarkslab’s expertise. Each one feeds, to varying degrees, our three areas of intervention.
Offensive & defensive technical expertise
The attack and protection techniques at the core of engagements
Pentest · Red Team · Exploitation · Reverse engineering · Fuzzing · Fault injection · Side channel · Obfuscation · White-box crypto · Malware & evasion · Static analysis · Dynamic analysis
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Offensive simulation / Vulnerability research / Application protection.
Systems & environments expertise
The platforms, OSes and vertical domains mastered
Linux · Windows · Android · iOS · Kernel · Cloud/DevOps · Containers · IoT · Automotive · Embedded hardware · Blockchain · Artificial intelligence
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Offensive simulation / Vulnerability research / Application protection
Methodologies & frameworks
The structuring frameworks that guarantee rigor and comparability
MITRE ATT&CK · TIBER-EU / CBEST · PTES / OSSTMM · Threat Intelligence (CTI) · Threat modeling · CVSS / EPSS · Security by Design · Coordinated disclosure
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Offensive simulation / Vulnerability research / Application protection
Research & Mathematics
The scientific foundations that set Quarkslab’s depth apart
Cryptography · Arithmetic / Algebra · MBA transformations · Lattices · Symbolic execution · Program synthesis · Binary diffing · 0-day research
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Vulnerability research / Application protection
Open-source proprietary tools
88 tools developed in-house, published and adopted by the global community
Triton / TritonDSE · QBDI · LIEF · PASTIS · Quokka · Pyrrha · Crypto-condor · BVWhiteBox · Rewind · Arybo · NFLlib · Qbindiff · Binbloom · IRMA · kdigger · Peetch · dreamboot · SSPAM · Qsynthesis · QBDL · +68 others
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Offensive simulation / Vulnerability research / Application protection
HOW DO THESE SKILLS FEED INTO THE 3 AREAS
Each skill class feeds the three domains to different degrees. This cross-cutting reach is what sets Quarkslab apart from a provider specialized in a single discipline.
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EXPERTISE MEETING THREE MAJOR NEEDS
These skills are organized into three distinct domains, each addressing a precise need, offering complete protection of your information system or your applications.
QRedTeam
Adversary simulation
Expose real attack paths. Before impact
Pentest – Red Team – Purple Team – APT Emulation – CTI ……
QLab
Deep vulnerability reserach
Find what others miss. Protect what others can’t.
Hardware – Firmware – Fuzzing – 0Day ….
QShield
SOFTWARE PROTECTION
Don’t just protect your code. Arm it.
Obfuscation – White box crypto – Anti Tamper – LLVM – MBA
88 open-source tools: R&D made public.
From QBDI to Triton, from LIEF to PASTIS: our tools are used by thousands of researchers worldwide. What we publish is the exact measure of what we master.