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Andrew Kramer

Assistant Professor

Department

The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences

Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, Dakota State University (Doctoral Candidate)
M.S., Dakota State University
B.S., Dakota State University
A.A., College of Redwoods

Biography

Andrew Kramer is an Assistant Professor in The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences, teaching classes related to reverse engineering, vulnerability research, and exploit development. His work focuses on x86/x64 in Linux environments, while occasionally delving into other platforms such as ARM IoT/embedded devices.

Kramer is passionate about student success and strives to make education exciting through hands-on learning and project-based work. He believes that a teacher’s primary goal should be to spark excitement for the subject.

Additionally, he has published a variety of open-source software projects and holds several CVEs from personal research work.

Contact

Office Location: East Hall
Phone: (605) 256-5838
Email
Website

Software reverse engineering
Binary exploitation
C programming
Assembly programming

Capture the flag (CTF)
Software reverse engineering
Vulnerability research
Exploit development

OpenSOC Winner at DEF CON 28 – 2020
Wild West Hacking Fest CTF Winner / Black Badge Holder – 2019, 2024
Ernest Teagarden Award for Excellence in Teaching – 2022
Outstanding Research Mentor (2023-4)

Amateur Radio General Class

Co-PI, DSU Scholarship for Service grant (NSF)

Brizendine, B., Babcock, A., Kramer, A.: “Move Over, ROP: Towards a Practical Approach to Jump-Oriented Programming”. HITBMag. 121–152 (2021). https://magazine.hitb.org/wpcontent/uploads/2021/06/HITBMag-Issue-12-June-2021-.pdf
Kramer, A.: “LASRCOP: Lightweight Automated Session Recording to Certify Original Programming”. ISCAP Proceedings. (2023). https://iscap.us/proceedings/2023/abstracts/6051.html
Ham, M., Kramer, A.: “Hardware Reverse Engineering Platform: An Open-source Educational Tool”. ISCAP Proceedings. (2023). https://iscap.us/proceedings/2023/abstracts/6050.html
Ham, M., Kramer, A.: “Preventing Ransomware and Malware Starts with Good Cyber Hygiene”. Infosecurity Magazine. https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/blogs/preventing-ransomware-withcyber/
Kramer, A.: “Fine Grained Address Space Layout Randomization Through Non-Contiguous PerFunction Memory Segment Assignment”. https://scholar.dsu.edu/theses/451/.
Dakota State University. (2024) Schramm, A., Medin, D., Kramer, A.: “Micromouse - Maze Solving Robot”. Annual Research Symposium. 34. https://scholar.dsu.edu/research-symposium/34
Stapert, T., Kramer A.: “Do Online Test Proctoring Services Abide by Standard Data Protections?”. (2024). Annual Research Symposium. 29. https://scholar.dsu.edu/researchsymposium/29
Kramer, A.: “Building Joy for C Programming with Code Golf”. ISCAP Proceedings. (2024). https://iscap.us/proceedings/2024/abstracts/6241.htm
CVE’s: CVE-2024-3852, CVE-2019-5523, CVE-2016-4071, CVE-2015-8617

Github: https://github.com/Rewzilla

OWASP, Exploiting Deserialization Vulnerabilities in PHP Applications