João Pedro Favoretti
Hey! I'm currently working on my Master's Thesis about Phishing Countermeasures in the field of Cybersecurity at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA) in Brazil. At the same time, I am finishing a BSc. in Computer Science at the University of São Paulo (USP).
Of all the projects I have ever done, the ones that I enjoy the most are related to Computer Security. Besides that, I also have done projects related to Website Development, Computer Graphics, Operating Systems, Physics Simulation, and Systems Programming.
Education
University of São Paulo, Brazil — Bachelor in Computer Science
Jan 2020 - Present
9.5/10 GPA. 4th best student
Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil — Masters in Computer Science
Aug 2023 - Present
9.6/10 GPA
Experiences
Reverse Engineer Member
Ganesh ICMC - USP
Studies on Reverse Engineering, Pwning, Binary Exploitation and Hardware Hacking
Undergraduate Researcher
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Develop a two-fold project with a policy creation program and a process admission driver for Windows systems
Teaching Assistant
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA
Give lectures and help students in the Operating Systems class
Software Engineer
S3Bank
Development of the S3BANK Web Onboard/Dashboard from scratch
Academic Publications
SAUCY SPICE: a new efficient signature-based malware detection approach. In Brasilian Symposium of Information Security and Information Sytems (SBSeg 2023). Leonardo Gonçalves Chahud, João Pedro Favoretti, Rafael Rocha, Nilson Sangy Jr., Filipe Verri, Idilio Drago, Lourenço Alves Pereira Junior. [Download PDF]
(Submitted) PHISHPATH: Understanding the Scaly Underbelly of Redirection Chains in Phishing. In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025). Zhuoer Lyu, Penghui Zhang, Marzieh Bitaab, Hongkai Chen, Fernando Dantas, João Pedro Favoretti, Adam Oest, Lourenço Alves Pereira Júnior, Yan Shoshitaishvili.
(Submitted) Inside the Phishing Reel: Detecting phishing using JavaScript instrumentation. In Brasilian Symposium of Information Security and Information Sytems (SBSeg 2024). João Pedro Favoretti, Fernando Dantas, Lourenço Alves Pereira Júnior.
Volunteer Work
Leader
CISV Brazil
Organizing the camp and developing activities for kids that were related to Human Rights, Diversity, Conflict and Resolution, and Sustainable Development
Recognition and Certificates
Cambridge English: Advanced (C1)
Cambridge English Brazil
Computer Systems Security
Arizona State University
Short Biography
During my third year of high school, I was invited by MIT Brazil to participate in a project called MURSS to develop a PID algorithm for a simple robot powered by an Arduino chip in a custom track. The whole schedule took two weeks and made me choose a major in Computer Science instead of Computer Engineering.
As soon as I got into college I received an internship proposition to develop from scratch all the web interfaces, including a client dashboard/onboard for a recently founded fintech called S3Bank.
Even though I liked it, I became more interested in Cybersecurity and started studying/solving some challenges. That was the moment that I became aware of the "Computer Systems Security" class from Arizona State Universty, hosted by professor Yan Shoshitaishvili at the pwn.college infrastructure and ended up solving more than 360 hard binary exploitation challenges, worth it of receiving a Yellow Belt award in the platform.
Following that, I got in touch with professor Lourenço Pereira from Aeronautics Institute of Technology to start Undergraduate Research about Malware prevention on Windows Systems, which turned out to be published at SBSeg 2023.
After getting in contact with professor Yan, regarding a research collaboration, I started my Master's at the same time that I finish the last two years of my graduation, which is quite unconventional and only allowed at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology.
Right now, I'm working with a Microsoft Security Engineer toward a phishing prevention system as well as collaborating in a phishing research with PhD Students from the SEFCOM laboratory at Arizona State University.