Main Publication

Achieving Zen: Combining Mathematical and Programmatic Deep Learning Model Representations for Attribution and Reuse

David Oygenblik, Dinko Dermendzhiev, Filippos Sofias, Mingxuan Yao, Haichuan Xu, Runze Zhang, Jeman Park, Amit Kumar Sikder, and Brendan Saltaformaggio

Accepted to appear in the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2026) 

Top-tier | Selected | Int'l Conference | BK21

[PDF], [Source Code]

Lock the Door But Keep the Window Open: Extracting App-Protected Accessibility Information from Browser-Rendered Websites

Haichuan Xu, Runze Zhang, Mingxuan Yao, David Oygenblik, Yizhi Huang, Jeman Park, and Brendan Saltaformaggio

Accepted to appear in the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2025)

Top-tier | Selected | Int'l Conference | BK21

[PDF], [Source Code]

Hitchhiking Vaccine: Enhancing Botnet Remediation With Remote Code Deployment Reuse

Runze Zhang, Mingxuan Yao, Haichuan Xu, Omar Alrawi, Jeman Park*, and Brendan Saltaformaggio*

Proceedings of the 32nd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2025), * co-corresponding authors

Top-tier | Selected | Int'l Conference | BK21

[PDF], [Source Code]

DVa: Extracting Victims and Abuse Vectors from Android Accessibility Malware

Haichuan Xu, Mingxuan Yao, Runze Zhang, Mohamed Moustafa Dawoud, Jeman Park*, and Brendan Saltaformaggio*

Proceedings of the 33rd Usenix Security Symposium (Security 2024),  * co-corresponding authors

Top-tier | Selected | Int'l Conference | BK21

[PDF], [Source Code]

Media: [Tech Xplore], [MSN], [TechRadar], [Hackread], [Science of Security], [NY Breaking]

AI Psychiatry: Forensic Investigation of Deep Learning Networks in Memory Images

David Oygenblik, Carter Yagemann, Joseph Zhang, Arianna Mastali, Jeman Park*, and Brendan Saltaformaggio*

Proceedings of the 33rd Usenix Security Symposium (Security 2024),  * co-corresponding authors

Top-tier | Selected | Int'l Conference | BK21

[PDF], [Source Code] 

Media: [Tech Xplore], [Georgia Tech Research], [Georgia Tech]

Mistrust Plugins You Must: A Large-Scale Study of Malicious Plugins in WordPress Marketplaces

Ranjita Pai Kasturi, Jonathan Fuller, Yiting Sun, Omar Chabklo, Andres Rodriguez, Jeman Park*, and Brendan Saltaformaggio*

Proceedings of the 31st Usenix Security Symposium (Security 2022), * co-corresponding authors

Top-tier | Selected | Int'l Conference | BK21

[PDF], [Source Code]

Media: [The Hacker News], [SiliconANGLE], [Security Affairs]

CSAW 22’ Applied Research Competition Finalist.

Featured in USENIX :login; Magazine [article].

Statically Dissecting Internet of Things Malware: Analysis, Characterization, and Detection

Afsah Anwar, Hisham Alasmary, Jeman Park, An Wang, Songqing Chen, and David Mohaisen

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2020).

Int'l Conference

Where Are You Taking Me? Behavioral Analysis of Open DNS Resolvers

Jeman Park, Aminollah Khormali, Manar Mohaisen, and Aziz Mohaisen

Proceedings of the 49th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (IEEE/IFIP DSN 2019).

​Int'l Conference | BK21 | Selected

Adversarial Learning Attacks on Graph-based IoT Malware Detection System

Ahmed Abusnaina, Aminollah Khormali, Hisham Alasmary, Jeman Park, Afsah Anwar, and Aziz Mohaisen

Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2019).

​Int'l Conference | BK21

Cyber Deception in the Internet of Battlefield Things: Techniques, Instances, and Assessments

Jeman Park, Aziz Mohaisen, Charles Kamhoua, Michael Weisman, Nandi Leslie, and Laurent Njilla

Proceedings of the 20th World Conference on Information Security Applications (WISA 2019).

​Int'l Conference

Graph-based Comparison of IoT and Android Malware

Hisham Alasmary, Afsah Anwar, Jeman Park, Jinchun Choi, DaeHun Nyang, and Aziz Mohaisen

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Social Networks (CSoNet 2018).

​Int'l Conference

Timing is Almost Everything: Realistic Evaluation of the Very Short Intermittent DDoS Attacks

Jeman Park, DaeHun Nyang, and Aziz Mohaisen

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2018).

​Int'l Conference

QoI: Assessing Participation in Threat Information Sharing

Jeman Park, Hisham Alasmary, Omar Al-Ibrahim, Charles Kamhoua, Kevin Kwiat, Laurent Njilla, and Aziz Mohaisen

Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2018).

​Int'l Conference

Mujaz: A Summarization-based Approach for Normalized Vulnerability Detection

Hattan Althebeiti, Brett Fazio, William Chen, Jeman Park, and David Mohaisen

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

Selected | SCI/E Journal | JCR Top5%

[PDF], [Source Code] (Coming Soon!)

A Large-Scale Behavioral Analysis of the Open DNS Resolvers on the Internet

Jeman Park, Rhongho Jang, Manar Mohaisen, and David Mohaisen

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 76-89, Aug. 2021. 

​SCI/E Journal | Selected | JCR Q1

Domain Name System Security and Privacy: A Contemporary Survey

Aminollah Khormali, Jeman Park, Hisham Alasmary, Afsah Anwar, Muhammad Saad, and David Mohaisen

Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 185, 2021.

SCI/E Journal | JCR Q1

Assessing the Effectiveness of Pulsing Denial of Service Attacks under Realistic Network Synchronization Assumptions

Jeman Park, Manar Mohaisen, DaeHun Nyang, and David Mohaisen

Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 173, 2020.

SCI/E Journal | JCR Q1

Understanding the Proxy Ecosystem: A Comparative Analysis of Residential and Open Proxies on the Internet

Jinchun Choi, Mohammed Abuhamad, Ahmed Abusnaina, Afsah Anwar, Sultan Alshamrani, Jeman Park, DaeHun Nyang, and David Mohaisen

IEEE Access, Vol. 8, 2020.

SCI/E Journal | JCR Q1

Self-Controllable Super-Resolution Deep Learning Framework for Surveillance Drones in Security Applications

Soohyun Park, Yeongeun Kang, Jeman Park, and Joongheon Kim

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, Vol. 7, No. 23, 2020.

Int'l Journal

Transparency in the New gTLD Era: Evaluating the DNS Centralized Zone Data Service

Jeman Park, Jinchun Choi, DaeHun Nyang, and Aziz Mohaisen

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 1782-1796, 2019.

​SCI/E Journal | JCR Top10%

Analyzing and Detecting Emerging Internet of Things Malware: A Graph-based Approach

Hisham Alasmary, Amin Khormali, Afsah Anwar, Jeman Park, Jinchun Choi, Ahmed Abusnaina, Amro Awad, DaeHun Nyang, and Aziz Mohaisen

IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTj), Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 8977-8988, 2019.

​SCI/E Journal | JCR Top5%

Network-based Analysis and Classification of Malware using Behavioral Artifacts Ordering

Aziz Mohaisen, Omar Alrawi, Jeman Park, Joongheon Kim, DaeHun Nyang, and Manar Mohaisen

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety, Vol. 5, No. 16, 2018.

​Int'l Journal

Thriving on Chaos: Proactive Detection of Command and Control Domains in Internet of Things-Scale Botnets using DRIFT

Jeffrey Spaulding, Jeman Park, Joongheon Kim, DaeHun Nyang, and Aziz Mohaisen

Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, e3505, 2018.

SCI/E Journal