https://moabid.me/ Mouad Abid — software security engineer. Career rendered as git log --graph --all: every job, degree and training as a branch. en https://moabid.me/blog/surrounded-by-slops-cloud-red-teaming/ https://moabid.me/blog/surrounded-by-slops-cloud-red-teaming/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT On AI slop, Cloud IAM, OPSEC, attack graphs, and why knowing the command is not the same as knowing what the fuck you’re doing. cloud-security offensive-security iam red-teaming opsec privilege-escalation language-models https://moabid.me/blog/pe-hell/ https://moabid.me/blog/pe-hell/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT A walk through the Windows PE file format — headers, sections, imports — and why parsing it by hand is the first step in malware analysis. offensive-security binary-formats malware-analysis reverse-engineering c https://moabid.me/blog/do-you-speak-elf/ https://moabid.me/blog/do-you-speak-elf/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT The ELF binary format from the inside: headers, sections vs segments, and how the Linux kernel loads your program. systems-programming offensive-security binary-formats reverse-engineering c https://moabid.me/blog/awsome-security-shhhhhh-part-1/ https://moabid.me/blog/awsome-security-shhhhhh-part-1/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT AWS pentesting from an attacker's seat — IAM, credentials, enumeration, and the misconfigurations that hand you the cloud. cloud-security offensive-security iam penetration-testing https://moabid.me/blog/heap-the-witchcraft-dungeon/ https://moabid.me/blog/heap-the-witchcraft-dungeon/ Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT How the glibc heap really works — chunks, bins, malloc/free — and how that turns into heap exploitation in CTFs. offensive-security systems-programming binary-exploitation memory-management c https://moabid.me/blog/reversing-everything-except-love/ https://moabid.me/blog/reversing-everything-except-love/ Mon, 08 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT A fairy-tale style intro to reverse engineering: from source to assembly and back, with the tools that make it click. offensive-security systems-programming reverse-engineering c assembly https://moabid.me/blog/pointers-need-painters/ https://moabid.me/blog/pointers-need-painters/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT Pointers in C explained with pictures — addresses, dereferencing, arrays, and the mistakes that bite beginners. systems-programming memory-management c https://moabid.me/blog/did-someone-say-memory/ https://moabid.me/blog/did-someone-say-memory/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT The memory layout of a C program: stack, heap, data, text — and what actually happens when you allocate. systems-programming memory-management c https://moabid.me/blog/makefile-or-make-me-a-file/ https://moabid.me/blog/makefile-or-make-me-a-file/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT Makefiles from zero: rules, variables, pattern rules, and the tricks that make them useful beyond compiling C. systems-programming build-automation c https://moabid.me/blog/c-from-another-prespective/ https://moabid.me/blog/c-from-another-prespective/ Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT How I actually write C — the conventions, habits, and safety rules that keep the code readable and sane. systems-programming secure-coding code-quality c