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Hands-on in SIGINT, ELINT, COMINT and Electronic Warfare

07-09 October, 2025

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE

  •     Understanding Communication System Concepts
  •     Understanding Core Concepts of EW, SIGINT, ELINT
  •     Getting Exposure to SDR Hardware and Software with special emphasis on software.
  •     Developing Intuition to Core Concepts.

PRE-REQUISITE

A little bit of basic Linux knowledge

PARTICIPANT'S REQUIREMENTS

A Linux laptop with Ubuntu 24.04 installed natively, on bare-metal, not on VMWare or a VB appliance.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

People who are interested in this domain from colleges and organizations.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This coursework will provide a basic introduction to this domain so we will cover basics and participants will learn how to build flowgraphs from scratch and how to analyze incoming data

WHAT NOT TO EXPECT

Becoming an expert in this domain over the period of three days

DURATION

Duration: 3 days (6-8) Hrs

Trainer


Aditya Arun Kumar S

Security Research and Test Specialist

Nokia


Akash V NaiK

Director

ReInfosec

Day wise Training Plan

  • DAY 1 Foundations of Electronic Warfare and Signal Analysis
    • Introduction to EW, SIGINT, and ELINT
    • History and Evolution of EW
    • Tools of the Trade
    • Workshop Overview
    • Installation and Configuration of Software
    • Introduction to Software Defined Radio (SDR)
    • Components of a Working SDR
    • Crash Course to Math, Signals, and Interconnected Relationships
    • Digital Effects and Software Compensation
    • Channels in Communication Systems with Hands-on Experiments
    • Blind Signal Analysis – Analog Communications Hands-on
  • DAY 2 Breaking and Understanding Digital Signals
    • Recap of Day 1: Short review of key concepts, Quick quiz-style recap activity
    • Attacks on Wireless Signals I: Jamming, Spoofing, Replay: Demonstration of jamming and replay, Spoofing examples and hands-on challenges
    • Attacks on Wireless Signals II: Reflection and Multipath Exploitation: Understanding physical layer vulnerabilities, Practical multipath experiments
    • Digital Communication Systems: Components of a digital communication system, From bits to signals
    • Constellation Points and Complex Numbers: Visualizing signal constellations, Understanding I/Q representation
    • Generating Complex Points: Hands-on with GNU Radio Companion, Baseline implementation in Python
    • Bits and Symbols: Relationship between bits and modulation symbols, Impact on data rate and reliability
    • Blind Signal Analysis: Techniques for analyzing unknown signals, Hands-on digital communication analysis
    • Data Storage and Preservation: Formats for saving and transferring signal data, Best practices for long-term preservation
    • Offline Signal Analysis: Working with pre-captured signals, Methods for post-processing and decoding
  • DAY 3 HF Signals, Radar, and Capture the Flag
    • Quick quiz style recap of Day 1 and 2
    • Challenge time - Identify the analog and digital communication signals
    • HF adventure - HF propagation and ionospheric effects, hand on real world signals in GNU Radio Companion.
    • HF signals Reversal lab - Using standalone software to peel real-life signals
    • RADAR Secrets - Generate and look how a real life RADAR waveform looks like, simulate static targets like a RADAR operator
    • Sabotage of RADAR waveforms - Learn how to create the most complicated of return waveform to make the RADAR struggle
    • CTF Time

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