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Igor Farias
Offensive Security · Apple Platforms

Igor Farias

Security Researcher @ iFood

Specializing in iOS/macOS kernel security, vulnerability research, and reverse engineering. Focused on identifying critical vulnerabilities in Apple's ecosystem, building security tooling, and contributing to open-source security projects.

CVE Published
1st BSides CTF
4+ Security Tools
Current Role

Mobile Security Engineer

iFood · Brazil's #1 Delivery Platform

  • iOS security engineering at scale for 55M+ users
  • Reverse engineering and static analysis
  • Security automation for CI/CD pipelines
  • Build/packaging security validation
May 2025 – Present
Bsides Rio CTF
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Competition

BSides Rio CTF

1st place in binary exploitation and reverse engineering challenges.

March 2025
iometa tooling
Open Source

iometa

Fixed kernelcache parsing crash for iOS 15 and earlier. Patch merged upstream by Siguza.

Mach-O Kernel
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Boot-Chain Research

iBootWatchOS32Patcher

Universal watchOS 32-bit iBoot patcher for security research. Defeats IMG4 Secure Boot chain on Apple Watch S1-S3 devices (watchOS 2.x-8.x) through ARM32 Thumb-2 instruction pattern scanning and signature validation bypasses.

IMG4 Signature Bypass
🔧 Custom Boot-Args
🔓 AMFI Disable
ARM32 watchOS iBSS/iBEC
Research Tooling

SBPL Viewer

Parser for Apple's undocumented Sandbox Profile Language, enabling deep static analysis of iOS/macOS sandbox boundaries.

  • SBPL parsing & normalization
  • Policy inheritance mapping
  • Permission inspection
CI/CD Security

KnightWatch

Rust-based SAST engine for mobile binary validation. Enforces zero-trust deployment policies through Mach-O inspection and entropy analysis.

Rust IPA/APK GitLab CI
Enterprise Security

Mobile RASP

Contributed to iOS Runtime Application Self-Protection framework protecting enterprise banking applications at scale.

iOS Runtime Protection
Kernel Research

KFD / PUAF Study

  • Physical UAF primitives
  • pmap, PPL, VM internals
  • Kernel R/W construction