About
I'm a Ph.D. student in Engineering in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, in the department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, DIAG.
I work in the research group led by my advisors, Professor Leonardo Querzoni and Professor Daniele Cono D'Elia.
I am currently on a visiting research period at the University of Twente under the supervision of Professor Andrea Continella working on software testing.
My research interests lie in software and system security, in particular program analysis, reverse engineering, malware analysis and software testing.
I'm one of the two inventors of the patent "Methods and systems for analyzing environment-sensitive malware via coverage-guided fuzzing" IT202200015966A1 and EP4312401B1, which is currently under revision for the U.S. patent office.
More details can be found in my CV.
Publications
PFUZZER: Practical, Sound, and Effective Multi-path Analysis of Environment-sensitive Malware with Coverage-guided Fuzzing
Nicola Bottura, Daniele Cono D’Elia, Leonardo Querzoni
10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&PÂ 2025)
Poster: All Right Then, (Don't) Keep Your Secrets: Exposing API Hashing in Malware
Nicola Bottura, Giorgia Di Pietro, Yuya Yamada, Daniele Cono D'Elia, Leonardo Querzoni
22nd Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA '25)