Publications

Academic Publications (Reverse Chronological Order): See my Google Scholar page for the most current list.

• Arun Lakhotia, Vivek Notani and Charles LeDoux. "Malware Economics and its Implication to Anti-Malware Situational Awareness".  International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (Cyber SA 2018)

• Vivek Notani. "Regression based Abstract Interpretation”. Poster presentation at PLDI 2017, Spain.

• Craig Miles, Arun Lakhotia, Charles LeDoux, Aaron Newsom and Vivek Notani. "VirusBattle: State-of-the-Art Malware Analysis for Better Cyber Threat Intelligence". In 7th International Symposium on Resilient Control Systems (ISRCS 2014).

• Brian Ruttenberg, Craig Miles, Lee Kellogg, Vivek Notani, Michael Howard, Charles LeDoux, Arun Lakhotia, and Avi Pfeffer. "Identifying Shared Software Components to Support Malware Forensics". In Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, pp. 21-40. Springer International Publishing (DIMVA 2014).

• Luke Deshotels, Vivek Notani and Arun Lakhotia. "DroidLegacy: Automated Android Malware Familial Classification". 3rd ACM SIGPLAN Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (PPREW 2014).

• Charles LeDoux, Arun Lakhotia, Craig Miles, Vivek Notani and Avi Pfeffer. "FuncTracker: Discovering Shared Code to aid Malware Forensics". 6th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET 2013).

Talks (Reverse Chronological Order): 

• Vivek Notani. "Program Analysis". Innovations in Scientific Research - 2020, Women Institute of Technology, UTU, Dehradun. (India 2020).

• Vivek Notani. "Tutorial on Abstract Interpretation view of Concolic Analysis". Software Security Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop, USA. (SSPREW  2017). (link)

• Vivek Notani and Roberto Giacobazzi. "Learning Based Widening”. Extended abstract. Tools for Automated Program Analysis, USA. (TAPAS 2017). (link)

• Vivek Notani and Roberto Giacobazzi. "Tutorial on Concolic Analysis". Software Security Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop, USA. (SSPREW  2016). (link)

• Vivek Notani and Roberto Giacobazzi. "Guaranteed Security". Workshop session at Defcon USA 2016. (link)

• Vivek Notani, Mila Dalla Preda and Roberto Giacobazzi. "SHERBET: Shared Code Search with Symbolic Finite Automata". UnPublished Proceedings at Doctoral Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS Doctoral Symposium 2016). (pdf)

• Arun Lakhotia and Vivek Notani. "VirusBattle: Harnessing Intelligence from Large Malware Repositories". Talk at BlackHat USA 2015. (video)

Informal Talks (Reverse Chronological Order):

• "Machine Learning and Abstract Interpretation"

  • • Informal Talk at IMDEA Software Institute (Spain). July 2016

    • Informal Talk at University of Padova (Italy). July 2016

• "Malware Analysis and Design (MAD)". Graduate Course, University of Verona, Italy. Spring 2016, 2017, 2018 (link)

  • • "Programming with x86 Assembly". Lecture session.

    • "Reverse Engineering with IDA". Lab sessions 

    • "PE File Format". Lecture and Lab sessions 

• Roberto Giacobazzi and Vivek Notani. "Code Attack and Semantic Obfuscation". Lecture and Lab session at 7th International Summer School on Information Security and Protection, India. (ISSISP 2016).

• Vivek Notani and Arun Lakhotia. "Harnessing Intelligence from Malware Repositories". Recon Lightning Talk. Recon, Canada, 2015.

• Vivek Notani and Arun Lakhotia. "Exploiting Large Malware Repositories for Intelligence". 6th International Summer School on Information Security and Protection, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. (ISSISP-2015).