Chao Zhang

Chao Zhang

PKU->UCB->THU

Chao Zhang (张超)

Tenured Associate Professor
Huawei Endowed Professor
FIT 3-209 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084
chaoz # tsinghua.edu.cn
chao.zhang # pku.edu.cn
chaoz # berkeley.edu (expired)

Headline

I am looking for highly-motivated collaborators all the time.

  • Positions: postdocs, visiting scholars, research assistants, interns
  • Topics: software security, program analysis, AI security, data security
  • Read more at contact page if you are interested.

About

Research Interests

Hack for Fun

Publications

Conferences

2024

  1. VulShield: Protecting Vulnerable Code Before Deploying Patches
    Yuan Li, Chao Zhang*, Jinhao Zhu, Penghui Li, Chenyang Li, Songtao Yang, Wende Tan
    To appear in Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’25), San Diego, California, Feb 2025

  2. Truman: Constructing Device Behavior Models from OS Drivers to Fuzz Virtual Devices
    Zheyu Ma, Zheming Li, Tingting Yin, Wende Tan, Chao Zhang*, Mathias Payer
    To appear in Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’25), San Diego, California, Feb 2025

  3. EAGLEYE: Exposing Hidden Web Interfaces in IoT Devices via Routing Analysis
    Hangtian Liu, Lei Zheng, Shuitao Gan, Chao Zhang, Zicong Gao, Hongqi Zhang, Yishun Zeng, Zhiyuan Jiang, Jiahai Yang
    To appear in Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’25), San Diego, California, Feb 2025

  4. Sublinear Distributed Product Checks on Replicated Secret-Shared Data over Z2𝑘 Without Ring Extensions
    Yun Li, Daniel Escudero, Yufei Duan, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, Chao Zhang, Yifan Song*
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24), Salt Lake City, USA, Oct 2024

  5. Test Suites Guided Vulnerability Validation for Node.js Applications
    Changhua Luo, Penghui Li*, Wei Meng, Chao Zhang
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24), Salt Lake City, USA, Oct 2024

  6. CEBin: A Cost-Effective Framework for Large-Scale Binary Code Similarity Detection
    Hao Wang, Zeyu Gao, Chao Zhang*, Mingyang Sun, Yuchen Zhou, Han Qiu, and Xi Xiao
    In ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2024 (ISSTA’24), Vienna, Austria, Sep 2024

  7. CLAP: Learning Transferable Binary Code Representations with Natural Language Supervision
    Hao Wang, Zeyu Gao, Chao Zhang*, Zihan Sha, Mingyang Sun, Yuchen Zhou, Wenyu Zhu, Wenju Sun, Han Qiu, and Xi Xiao
    In ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2024 (ISSTA’24), Vienna, Austria, Sep 2024

  8. SDFUZZ: Target States Driven Directed Fuzzing
    Penghui Li, Wei Meng, Chao Zhang
    In 33nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug 2024

  9. Improving ML-based Binary Function Similarity Detection by Assessing and Deprioritizing Control Flow Graph Features
    Jialai Wang, Chao Zhang*, Longfei Chen, Yi Rong, Yuxiao Wu, Hao Wang, Wende Tan, Qi Li, Zongpeng Li
    In 33nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug 2024

  10. OptFuzz: Optimization Path Guided Fuzzing for JavaScript JIT Compilers
    Jiming Wang, Yan Kang, Chenggang Wu*, Yuhao Hu, Yue Sun, Jikai Ren, Yuanming Lai, Mengyao Xie, Charles Zhang, Tao Li, Zhe Wang
    In 33nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, Aug 2024

  11. Virtual Compiler Is All You Need For Assembly Code Search
    Zeyu Gao, Hao Wang, Yuanda Wang, Chao Zhang*
    In the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’24), Bangkok, Thailand, August 2024

  12. Laser Shield: a Physical Defense with Polarizer against Laser Attacks on Autonomous Driving Systems
    Qingjie Zhang, Lijun Chi, Di Wang, Mounira Msahli, Gerard Memmi, Tianwei Zhang, Chao Zhang, and Han Qiu*
    In Design Automation Conference 2024 (DAC’24), San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2024

  13. ConFuzz: Towards Large Scale Fuzz Testing of Smart Contracts in Ethereum
    Taiyu Wong, Chao Zhang*, Yuandong Ni, Mingsen Luo, HeYing Chen, Yufei Yu, Weilin Li, Xiapu Luo, Haoyu Wang
    In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’24), Vancouver, Canada, May 2024

  14. LABRADOR: Response Guided Directed Fuzzing for Black-box IoT Devices
    Hangtian Liu, Shuitao Gan, Chao Zhang, Zicong Gao, Hongqi Zhang, Xiangzhi Wang, Guangming Gao
    In IEEE Security & Privacy 2023 (IEEE S&P’24), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2024

  15. Break the Wall from Bottom: Automated Discovery of Protocol-Level Evasion Vulnerabilities in Web Application Firewalls
    Qi Wang, Jianjun Chen, Zheyu Jiang, Run Guo, Ximeng Liu, Chao Zhang, Haixin Duan
    In IEEE Security & Privacy 2023 (IEEE S&P’24), San Francisco, CA, May 2024

  16. On the Effectiveness of Function-Level Vulnerability Detectors for Inter-Procedural Vulnerabilities
    Zhen Li, Ning Wang, Deqing Zou*, Yating Li, Ruqian Zhang, Shouhuai Xu, Chao Zhang, Hai Jin
    In 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’24),, Lisbon, April 2024

  17. Faster and Better: Detecting Vulnerabilities in Linux-based IoT Firmware with Optimized Reaching Definition Analysis
    Zicong Gao, Chao Zhang*, Hangtian Liu, Wenhou Sun, Zhizhuo Tang, Liehui Jiang, Jianjun Chen, Yong Xie
    In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’24), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 2024

  18. EnclaveFuzz: Finding Vulnerabilities in SGX Applications
    Liheng Chen, Zheming Li, Zheyu Ma, Yuan Li, Baojian Chen, Chao Zhang*
    In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’24), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 2024

  19. Beyond the Surface: Uncovering the Unprotected Components of Android Against Overlay Attack
    Hao Zhou, Shuohan Wu, Chenxiong Qian, Xiapu Luo, Haipeng Cai, Chao Zhang
    In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’24), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 2024

  20. REQSMINER: Automated Discovery of CDN Forwarding Request Inconsistencies and DoS Attacks with Grammar-based Fuzzing
    Linkai Zheng, Xiang Li, Chuhan Wang, Run Guo, Haixin Duan, Jianjun Chen, Chao Zhang, Kaiwen Shen
    In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’24), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 2024

  21. SHAPFUZZ: Efficient Fuzzing via Shapley-Guided Byte Selection
    Kunpeng Zhang, Xiaogang Zhu†, Xiao Xi, Minhui Xue, Chao Zhang, Sheng Wen
    In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’24), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 2024

2023

  1. Unmasking Role-Play Attack Strategies in Exploiting Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Systems
    Weilin Li, Zhun Wang, Chenyu Li, Heying Chen, Taiyu Wong, Pengyu Sun, Yufei Yu, and Chao Zhang
    In ACM Workshop on Decentralized Finance (ACM DeFi 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov 2023
  2. Under the Dark: A Systematical Study of Stealthy Mining Pools (Ab)use in the Wild
    Zhenrui Zhang, Geng Hong, Xiang Li, Zhuoqun Fu, Jia Zhang, Mingxuan Liu, Chuhan Wang, Jianjun Chen, Baojun Liu, Haixin Duan, Chao Zhang, and Min Yang
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’23), Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov 2023
  3. One-bit Flip is All You Need: When Bit-flip Attack Meets Model Training
    Jianshuo Dong, Han Qiu, Yiming Li, Tianwei Zhang, Yuanjie Li, Zeqi Lai, Chao Zhang, Shu-Tao Xia
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’23), Paris, France, Oct 2023
  4. One Simple API Can Cause Hundreds of Bugs: An Analysis of Refcounting Bugs in All Modern Linux Kernels
    Liang He, Purui Su, Chao Zhang, Yan Cai, Jinxin Ma
    In 29th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP’23), Koblenz, Germany, Oct 2023
  5. Thunderkaller: Profiling and Improving the Performance of Syzkaller
    Yang Lan, Di Jin, Zhun Wang, Wende Tan, Zheyu Ma, Chao Zhang*
    In 38th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’23), Kirchberg, Luxembourg, Sep 2023
  6. KextFuzz: Fuzzing macOS Kernel EXTensions on Apple Silicon via Exploiting Mitigations
    Tingting Yin, Zicong Gao, Zhenghang Xiao, Zheyu Ma, Min Zheng, and Chao Zhang*
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’23), ANAHEIM, CA, USA, Aug 2023
  7. DDRace: Finding Concurrency UAF Vulnerabilities in Linux Drivers with Directed Fuzzing
    Ming Yuan, Bodong Zhao, Penghui Li, Jiashuo Liang, Xinhui Han, Xiapu Luo, and Chao Zhang*
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’23), ANAHEIM, CA, USA, Aug 2023
  8. MTSan: A Feasible and Practical Memory Sanitizer for Fuzzing COTS Binaries
    Xingman Chen, Yinghao Shi, Zheyu Jiang, Yuan Li, Ruoyu Wang, Haixin Duan, Haoyu Wang, and Chao Zhang*
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’23), ANAHEIM, CA, USA, Aug 2023
  9. AIFORE: Smart Fuzzing Based on Automatic Input Format Reverse Engineering
    Ji Shi, Zhun Wang, Zhiyao Feng, Yang Lan, Shisong Qin, Wei You, Wei Zou, Mathias Payer, and Chao Zhang*
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’23), ANAHEIM, CA, USA, Aug 2023
  10. Efficient 3PC for Binary Circuits with Application to Maliciously-Secure DNN Inference
    Yun Li, Yufei Duan, Zhicong Huang, Cheng Hong, and Chao Zhang, Yifan Song
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’23), ANAHEIM, CA, USA, Aug 2023
  11. AlphaEXP: An Expert System for Identifying Security-Sensitive Kernel Objects
    Ruipeng Wang, Kaixiang Chen, Chao Zhang, Siliang Qin, Zulie Pan, Shenglin Xu, Min Zhang, Qianyu Li, and Yang Li
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’23), ANAHEIM, CA, USA, Aug 2023
  12. Aegis: Mitigating Targeted Bit-flip Attacks against Deep Neural Networks
    Jialai Wang, Ziyuan Zhang, Meiqi Wang, Han Qiu, Tianwei Zhang, Qi Li, Zongpeng Li, Tao Wei, and Chao Zhang
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’23), ANAHEIM, CA, USA, Aug 2023
  13. Temporal CDN-Convex Lens: A CDN-Assisted Practical Pulsing DDoS Attack
    Run Guo, Jianjun Chen, Yihang Wang, Keran Mu, Baojun Liu, Xiang Li, Chao Zhang, Haixin Duan, Jianping Wu
    In 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’23), ANAHEIM, CA, USA, Aug 2023
  14. PTStore: Lightweight Architectural Support for Page Table Isolation
    Wende Tan, Yangyu Chen, Yuan Li, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu, Yu Ding, and Chao Zhang*
    In Design Automation Conference (DAC’23), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 9-13 2023
  15. MPass: Bypassing Learning-based Static Malware Detectors
    Jialai Wang, Wenjie Qu, Yi Rong, Han Qiu, Qi Li, Zongpeng Li, and Chao Zhang
    In Design Automation Conference (DAC’23), San Francisco, CA, USA, July 9-13 2023
  16. 1dFuzz: Reproduce 1-day Vulnerabilities with Directed Differential Fuzzing
    Songtao Yang, Yubo He, Kaixiang Chen, Zheyu Ma, Xiapu Luo, Yong Xie, Jianjun Chen, and Chao Zhang*
    In ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’23), Seattle, Washington, United States, July 2023
  17. RaceBench: A Triggerable and Observable Concurrency Bug Benchmark
    Jiashuo Liang, Ming Yuan, Zhanzhao Ding, Siqi Ma, Xinhui Han*, and Chao Zhang
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS’23), Melbourne Australia, July 2023
  18. Callee: Recovering Call Graphs for Binaries with Transfer and Contrastive Learning
    Wenyu Zhu, Zhiyao Feng, Zihan Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Zhijian Ou, Min Yang, Chao Zhang*
    In IEEE Security & Privacy 2023 (IEEE S&P’23), San Francisco, CA, May 2023
  19. ODDFUZZ: Discovering Java Deserialization Vulnerabilities via Structure-Aware Directed Greybox Fuzzing
    Sicong Cao, Biao He, Xiaobing Sun, Yu Ouyang, Chao Zhang, Xiaoxue Wu, Ting Su, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Chuanlei Ma, Jiajia Li, and Tao Wei
    In IEEE Security & Privacy 2023 (IEEE S&P’23), San Francisco, CA, May 2023

2022

  1. RoChBert: Towards Robust BERT Fine-tuning for Chinese
    Zihan Zhang, Jinfeng Li, Ning Shi, Bo Yuan, Xiangyu Liu, Rong Zhang, Hui Xue, Donghong Sun, Chao Zhang*
    In the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-findings’22), Abu Dhabi, Dec 2022
  2. PACMem: Enforcing Spatial and Temporal Memory Safety via ARM Pointer Authentication
    Yuan Li, Wende Tan, Zhizheng Lv, Songtao Yang, Mathias Payer, Ying Liu, Chao Zhang*
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’22), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Nov 2022
  3. Evocatio: Conjuring Bug Capabilities from a Single PoC
    Zhiyuan Jiang, Shuitao Gan, Adrian Herrera, Flavio Toffalini, Lucio Romerio, Chaojing Tang, Manuel Egele, Chao Zhang, Mathias Payer
    In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’22), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Nov 2022
  4. HTFuzz: Heap Operation Sequence Sensitive Fuzzing
    Yuanping Yu, Xiangkun Jia, Yuwei Liu, Yanhao Wang, Qian Sang, Chao Zhang, Purui Su
    In 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’22), Oakland Center, Michigan, United States, Oct 2022
  5. StateFuzz: System Call-Based State-Aware Linux Driver Fuzzing
    Bodong Zhao, Zheming Li, Shisong Qin, Zheyu Ma, Ming Yuan, Wenyu Zhu, Zhihong Tian, Chao Zhang*
    In 31st USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’22), BOSTON, MA, USA, Aug 2022
  6. AutoDA: Automated Decision-based Iterative Adversarial Attacks
    Qi-An Fu, Yinpeng Dong, Hang Su, Jun Zhu*, Chao Zhang
    In 31st USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’22), BOSTON, MA, USA, Aug 2022
  7. jTrans: Jump-Aware Transformer for Binary Code Similarity Detection
    Hao Wang, Wenjie Qu, Gilad Katz, Wenyu Zhu, Zeyu Gao, Han Qiu, Jianwei Zhuge, Chao Zhang*
    In the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’22), Daejeon, South Korea, July 2022
  8. BET: Black-box Efficient Testing for Convolutional Neural Networks
    Jialai Wang, Han Qiu*, Yi Rong, Hengkai Ye, Qi Li, Zongpeng Li, Chao Zhang*.
    In the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’22), Daejeon, South Korea, July 2022
  9. PrIntFuzz: Fuzzing Linux Drivers via Automated Virtual Device Simulation
    Zheyu Ma, Bodong Zhao, Letu Ren, Zheming Li, Siqi Ma, Xiapu Luo, Chao Zhang*
    In the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’22), Daejeon, South Korea, July 2022
  10. NCScope: Hardware-Assisted Analyzer for Native Code in Android Apps
    Hao Zhou, Shuohan Wu, Xiapu Luo*, Ting Wang, Yajin Zhou, Chao Zhang, Haipeng Cai
    In the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’22), Daejeon, South Korea, July 2022
  11. Trade or Trick? Detecting and Characterizing Scam Tokens on Uniswap Decentralized Exchange
    Pengcheng Xia, Haoyu Wang*, Bingyu Gao, Weihang Su, Zhou Yu, Xiapu Luo, Chao Zhang, Xusheng Xiao, Guoai Xu
    In ACM SIGMETRICS 2022, Mumbai, India, June 2022
  12. 面向缓解机制评估的自动化信息泄漏方法
    杨松涛，陈凯翔，王准，张超*
    中国软件大会系统软件安全论坛， 西安，2021年12月
  13. An Empirical Study on Implicit Constraints in Smart Contract Static Analysis
    Tingting Yin, Chao Zhang*, Yuandong Ni, Yixiong Wu, Taiyu Wong, Xiapu Luo, Zheming Li, Yu Guo
    In 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-SEIP 2022), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 2022

2021

  1. ROLoad: Securing Sensitive Operations with Pointee Integrity
    Wende Tan, Yuan Li, Chao Zhang*, Xingman Chen, Songtao Yang, Ying Liu, Jianping Wu
    In Design Automation Conference (DAC’21), San Francisco, Dec 2021
  2. Igor: Crash Deduplication Through Root-Cause Clustering
    Zhiyuan Jiang, Xiyue Jiang, Ahmad Hazimeh, Chaojing Tang, Chao Zhang*, Mathias Payer
    In the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’21), virtual, Nov 2021
  3. ZKCPlus: Optimized Fair-exchange Protocol Supporting Practical and Flexible Data Exchange
    Yun Li, Cun Ye, Yuguang Hu, Ivring Morpheus, Yu Guo, Chao Zhang*, Yupeng Zhang, Zhipeng Sun, Yiwen Lu, Haodi Wang
    In the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’21), virtual, Nov 2021
  4. VScape: Assessing and Escaping Virtual Call Protections
    Kaixiang Chen, Chao Zhang*, Tingting Yin, Xingman Chen, Lei Zhao
    In USENIX Security (Sec’21), virtual, Aug 2021
  5. MAZE: Towards Automated Heap Feng Shui
    Yan Wang, Chao Zhang*, Zixuan Zhao, Bolun Zhang, Xiaorui Gong, Wei Zou
    In USENIX Security (Sec’21), virtual, Aug 2021
  6. Sharing More and Checking Less: Leveraging Common Input Keywords to Detect Bugs in Embedded Systems
    Libo Chen, Yanhao Wang, Quanpu Cai, Yunfan Zhan, Hong Hu, Jiaqi Linghu, Qinsheng Hou, Chao Zhang, Haixin Duan, Zhi Xue
    In in USENIX Security (Sec’21), virtual, Aug 2021
  7. RAProducer: Efficiently Diagnose and Reproduce Data Race Bugs for Binaries via Trace Analysis
    Ming Yuan, Yeseop Lee, Chao Zhang*, Yun Li, Yan Cai, Bodong Zhao
    In the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’21), virtual, July 2021
  8. iDEV: Exploring and Exploiting Semantic Deviations in ARM Instruction Processing
    Shisong Qin, Chao Zhang*, Kaixiang Chen, Zheming Li
    In the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA’21), virtual, July 2021
  9. ARGUS: Assessing Unpatched Vulnerable Devices on the Internet via Efficient Firmware Recognition
    Wei Xie, Chao Zhang, Penfei Wang, Zhenhua Wang, Qiang Yang
    In the 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS’21), virtual, June 2021
  10. Code is the (F)Law: Demystifying and Mitigating Blockchain Inconsistency Attacks Caused by Software Bugs
    Guorui Yu, Shibin Zhao, Chao Zhang*, Zhiniang Peng, Yuandong Ni and Xinhui Han*
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’21), virtual, May 2021
  11. POP and PUSH: Demystifying and Defending against (Mach) Port-Oriented Programming Min Zheng, Xiaolong Bai, Yajin Zhou, Chao Zhang, and Fuping Qu
    In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’21), virtual, Feb 2021
  12. CANCloak: Deceiving Two ECUs with One Frame
    Li Yue, Zheming Li, Tingting Yin, Chao Zhang*
    In Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec’21), virtual, Feb 2021

2020

  1. Finding Cracks in Shields: On the Security of Control Flow Integrity Mechanisms Yuan Li, Mingzhe Wang, Chao Zhang*, Xingman Chen, Songtao Yang, Ying Liu In the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’20), virtual, Nov 2020
  2. Argot: Generating Adversarial Readable Chinese Texts Zihan Zhang, Mingxuan Liu, Chao Zhang*, Yiming Zhang, Zhou Li, Qi Li, Haixin Duan, Donghong Sun. In the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’20), virtual, Jan 2021
  3. FANS: Fuzzing Android Native System Services via Automated Interface Analysis Baozheng Liu, Chao Zhang*, Guang Gong, Yishun Zeng, Haifeng Ruan, Jianwei Zhuge*. In the 29th USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’20), virtual, Aug 2020
  4. GreyOne: Data-Flow Sensitive Fuzzing Shuitao Gan, Chao Zhang*, Xiaojun Qin, Peng Chen, Bodong Zhao, Zuoning Chen In the 29th USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’20), virtual, Aug 2020
  5. A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Vulnerability Distribution within Projects and the Lessons Learned Bingchang Liu, Guozhu Meng*, Wei Zou, Qi Gong, Feng Li, Min Lin, Dandan Sun, Wei Huo, Chao Zhang.
    In the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), virtual, July 2020
  6. DRAMD: Detect Advanced DRAM-based Stealthy Communication Channels with Neural Networks Zhiyuan Lv, Youjian Zhao, Chao Zhang*, Haibin Li In the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’20), virtual, July 2020

2019 and earlier

  1. SRFuzzer: An Automatic Fuzzing Framework for Physical SOHO Router Devices to Discover Multi-Type Vulnerabilities
    Yu Zhang, Wei Huo, Kunpeng Jian, Ji Shi, Haoliang Lu, Longquan Liu, Chen Wang, and Dandan Sun, Chao Zhang, Baoxu Liu
    In the 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC’19)
  2. Fuzzing IPC with Knowledge Inference
    Kun Yang, Hanqing Zhao, Chao Zhang*, Jianwei Zhuge and Haixin Duan
    In the 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS’19)
  3. MOPT: Optimized Mutation Scheduling for Fuzzers
    Chenyang Lyu, Shouling Ji*, Chao Zhang*, Yuwei Li, Wei-Han Lee, Yu Song, Raheem Beyah
    In the 28th USENIX Security Symposium (Sec’19), Santa Clara, CA, Aug 2019
  4. Revery: from Proof-of-Concept to Exploitable (One Step towards Automatic Exploit Generation)
    Yan Wang, Chao Zhang*, Xiaobo Xiang, Zixuan Zhao, Wenjie Li, Xiaorui Gong*, Bingchang Liu, Kaixiang Chen, Wei Zou
    In the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’18), Toronto, Canada, Oct 2018
  5. Abusing CDNs for Fun and Profit: Security Issues in CDNs’ Origin Validation
    Run Guo, Jianjun Chen, Baojun Liu, Jia Zhang*, Chao Zhang*, Haixin Duan, Tao Wan, Jian Jiang, Shuang Hao, Yaoqi Jia
    In 37th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2018), Bahia, Brazil, Oct 2018
  6. αDiff: Cross-Version Binary Code Similarity Detection with DNN
    Bingchang Liu, Wei Huo*, Chao Zhang*, Wenchao Li, Feng Li, Aihua Piao, Wei Zou
    In IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering (ASE’18), Montpellier, France, Sep 2018

  7. ICUFuzzer: Fuzzing ICU Library for Exploitable Bugs in Multiple Software
    Kun Yang, Yuan Deng, Chao Zhang, Jianwei Zhuge and Haixin Duan
    In Information Security Conference (ISC’18), London, UK, Sep 2018

  8. CollAFL: Path Sensitive Fuzzing
    Shuitao Gan, Chao Zhang*, Xiaojun Qin, Xuwen Tu, Kang Li, Zhongyu Pei, Zuoning Chen
    In IEEE Security & Privacy 2018 (IEEE S&P’18), San Francisco, CA, May 2018

  9. Towards Efficient Heap Overflow Discovery
    Xiangkun Jia, Chao Zhang*, Purui Su*, Yi Yang, Huafeng Huang, Dengguo Feng
    In the 26th {USENIX} Security Symposium (Sec’17), Vancouver, BC, Aug 2017
  10. VTrust: Regaining Trust on Virtual Calls
    Chao Zhang, Scott A. Carr, Tongxin Li, Yu Ding, Chengyu Song, Mathias Payer, Dawn Song
    In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’16), San Diego, CA, Feb 2016
  11. VTint: Protecting Virtual Function Tables’ Integrity
    Chao Zhang, Chengyu Song, Kevin Zhijie Chen, Zhaofeng Chen, Dawn Song
    In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’15), San Diego, CA, Feb 2015
  12. Exploiting and Protecting Dynamic Code Generation
    Chengyu Song, Chao Zhang, Tielei Wang, Wenke Lee, David Melski
    In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’15), San Diego, CA, Feb 2015

  13. JITScope: Protecting Web Users from Control-Flow Hijacking Attacks
    Chao Zhang, Mehrdad Niknami, Kevin Zhijie Chen, Chengyu Song, Zhaofeng Chen, Dawn Song
    In the 34th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’15), Hong Kong, China, April 2015

  14. The Store-and-Flood Distributed Reflective Denial of Service Attack
    Bingshuang Liu, Skyler Berg, Jun Li, Tao Wei, Chao Zhang, Xinhui Han
    In the 23rd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN‘14), Shanghai, China, Aug 2014

  15. Android Low Entropy Demystified
    Yu Ding, Zhuo Peng, Yuanyuan Zhou, Chao Zhang
    In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’14), Sydney, Australia, June 2014

  16. Splider: A Split-based Crawler of the BT-DHT Network and its Applications
    Bingshuang Liu, Shidong Wu, Tao Wei, Chao Zhang, Jun Li, Jianyu Zhang, Yu Chen, Chen Li
    In the 11th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC’14), Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan 2014
  17. Practical Control Flow Integrity & Randomization for Binary Executables
    Chao Zhang, Tao Wei, Zhaofeng Chen, Lei Duan, Laszlo Szekeres, Stephen McCamant, Dawn Song, Wei Zou.
    In the 34th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (IEEE S&P’13), San Francisco, CA, May 2013.

  18. Protecting Function Pointers in Binary
    Chao Zhang, Tao Wei, Zhaofeng Chen, Lei Duan, Stephen McCamant, Laszlo Szekeres.
    In the 8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS’13), Hangzhou, China, May 2013.

  19. A Framework to Eliminate Backdoors from Response Computable Authentication
    Shuaifu Dai, Tao Wei, Chao Zhang, Tielei Wang, Yu Ding, Wei Zou, Zhenkai Liang.
    In the 33rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P’12), San Francisco, CA, May 2012.
  20. IntPatch: Automatically Fix Integer-Overflow-to-Buffer-Overflow Vulnerability at Compile-Time
    Chao Zhang, Tielei Wang, Tao Wei, Yu Chen, Wei Zou.
    In the 15th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS’10), Athens, Greece, Sep. 2010.

Journals

  1. llasm: Naming Functions in Binaries by Fusing Encoder-only and Decoder-only LLMs
    Zihan Sha, Hao Wang, Zeyu Gao, Hui Shu, Bolun Zhang, Ziqing Wang, Chao Zhang*
    Accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024

  2. ROLoad-PMP: Securing Sensitive Operations for Kernels and Bare-Metal Firmware
    Wende Tan, Chenyang Li, Yangyu Chen, Yuan Li, Chao Zhang*, Jianping Wu
    Accepted by Transactions on Compuerts (TC), 2024

  3. Graphuzz: Data-driven Seed Scheduling for Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing
    Hang Xu, Liheng Chen, Shuitao Gan, Chao Zhang*, Zheming Li, Jiangan Ji, Baojian Chen, Fan Hu
    Accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024

  4. KextFuzz: A Practical Fuzzer for macOS Kernel EXTensions on Apple Silicon
    Tingting Yin, Zicong Gao, Zhenghang Xiao, Zheyu Ma, Min Zheng, Chao Zhang*
    Accepted by Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023

  5. NSFuzz: Towards Efficient and State-Aware Network Service Fuzzing
    Shisong Qin, Fan Hu, Zheyu Ma, Bodong Zhao, Tingting Yin, Chao Zhang*
    Accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2023
  6. Tunter: Assessing Exploitability of Vulnerabilities with Taint-Guided Exploitable States Exploration
    Ruipeng Wang, Kaixiang Chen, Zulie Pan, Yuwei Li, Qianyu Li, Yang Li, Min Zhang, Chao Zhang
    Computers & Security (COSE), 2023, 124: 102995
  7. TAICHI: Transform Your Secret Exploits Into Mine From a Victim’s Perspective
    Zhongyu Pei, Xingman Chen, Songtao Yang, Haixin Duan, Chao Zhang*
    Accepted by Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2022
  8. Automatic Generation of Adversarial Readable Chinese Texts
    Mingxuan Liu, Zihan Zhang, Chao Zhang*, Zhou Li, Qi Li, Haixin Duan*, Donghong Sun
    In Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 20(2): 1756-1770 (2023)
  9. BATscope：比特币恶意地址及混币交易识别
    王大宇,殷婷婷,李赟,秦嗣量,任歆,罗夏朴,王浩宇,尹霞,张超*
    Accepted by 信息安全学报
  10. CAMFuzz: Explainable Fuzzing with Local Interpretation
    Ji Shi, Wei Zou, Chao Zhang*, Lingxiao Tan, Yanyan Zou, Yue Peng, Wei Huo
    Cybersecurity 5, 17 (2022)
  11. 面向缓解机制评估的自动化信息泄漏方法
    杨松涛，陈凯翔，王准，张超*
    软件学报, 2022, 33(6):0
  12. Path Sensitive Fuzzing for Native Applications
    Shuitao Gan, Chao Zhang*, Xiaojun Qin, Xuwen Tu, Kang Li, Zhongyu Pei, and Zuoning Chen
    In Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1544-1561, 1 May-June 2022
  13. Windows平台恶意软件智能检测综述
    汪嘉来, 张超*, 戚旭衍, 荣易.
    计算机研究与发展, 2021, 58(5): 977-994
  14. ESRFuzzer: An Enhanced Fuzzing Framework for Physical SOHO Router Devices to Discover Multi-Type Vulnerabilities
    Yu Zhang, Wei Huo, Kunpeng Jian, Ji Shi, Longquan Liu, Yanyan Zou*, Chao Zhang, Baoxu Liu.
    Cybersecur, 4, 24 (2021)
  15. 智能合约安全漏洞研究综述
    倪远东, 张超*, 殷婷婷
    信息安全学报, 2020, 5(3): 78-99

  16. 程序逆向分析在软件供应链污染检测中的应用：研究综述
    武振华，张超*，孙贺，颜学雄
    计算机应用, 2020 40(1): 103-115

  17. From Proof-of-Concept to Exploitable (One Step towards Automatic Exploitability Assessment)
    Wang, Yan, Wei Wu, Chao Zhang, Xinyu Xing, Xiaorui Gong*, and Wei Zou.
    Cybersecurity, 2, 12 (2019)
  18. 程序分析研究进展
    张健,张超,玄跻峰,熊英飞,王千祥,梁彬,李炼,窦文生,陈振邦,陈立前,蔡彦
    软件学报,2019,30(1):0
  19. Fuzzing: a survey
    Jun Li, Bodong Zhao, Chao Zhang*
    Cybersecurity, 2018 1(1)
  20. Glibc 堆利用的若干方法
    裴中煜, 张超*, 段海新
    信息安全学报, 2018, 3(1): 1-15
  21. 二进制程序中的use-after-free漏洞检测技术
    韩心慧, 魏爽, 叶佳奕, 张超, 叶志远
    清华大学学报(自然科学版), 2017, 57(10): 1022-1029
  22. 基于敏感字符的 SQL注入攻击防御方法
    张慧琳, 丁羽, 张利华, 段镭, 张超, 韦韬, 李冠成, 韩心慧
    计算机研究与发展，2016, 53(10): 2262-2276
  23. Accurate and Efficient Exploit Capture and Classification
    Yu Ding, Tao Wei, Hui Xue, Yulong Zhang, Chao Zhang, Xinhui Han
    In SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences (SCIS), 2017 60 052110:3
  24. SF-DRDoS: The store-and-flood distributed reflective denial of service attack
    Bingshuang Liu, Jun Li, Tao Wei, Skyler Berg, Jiayi Ye, Chen Li, Chao Zhang, Jianyu Zhang, Xinhui Han
    In Computer Communications, 2015, 69: 107-115
  25. Improving lookup reliability in Kad
    Bingshuang Liu, Tao Wei, Chao Zhang, Jun Li, Jianyu Zhang
    In Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA), 2015, 8(1)
  26. Using Type Analysis in Compiler to Eliminate Integer-Overflow-to-Buffer-Overflow Threat.
    Chao Zhang, Wei Zou, Tielei Wang, Yu Chen, Tao Wei.
    In Journal of Computer Security (JCS), Vol. 19, No. 6, Dec. 2011

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