- Mar 02, 2020
- Security
New CVE Published (CVE-2020-9549)
CVE-2020-9549 has been assigned for a vulnerability I found in Pdfresurrect. The details are available here. This issue is currently being patched.
Security Articles
- Aug 15, 2019
- Security
New PoC Published to Exploit-DB (EDB-ID-47254)
I published a PoC for a new vulnerability in abc2mtex version 1.6.1. This was discovered while testing an analysis framework I'm developing with my peers at Georgia Tech. The vulnerability is due to an unsafe strcpy that allows an attacker to overwrite a return address and achieve arbitrary …
- Jun 11, 2019
- Security
MLSploit Extended Abstract to Appear in KDD 2019
My coauthors and I will be presenting an extended abstract in the 25th Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'19) in August. Below is a preview: Title: MLsploit: A Framework for Interactive Experimentation with Adversarial Machine Learning Research Authors: Nilaksh Das, Siwei Li, Chanil Jeon, Jinho Jung, Shang-Tse Chen …
- Jun 08, 2019
- Security
Barnum Paper to Appear in Information Security Conference 2019 (ISC'19)
My coauthors and I will be presenting a paper in the 22nd Information Security Conference (ISC'19) in September. Below is a preview: Project Page Title: Barnum: Detecting Document Malware via Control Flow Anomalies in Hardware Traces. Authors: Carter Yagemann (Georgia Tech), Salmin Sultana (Intel Labs), Li Chen (Intel Labs), Wenke …
- Apr 26, 2019
- Security
Extended Abstract to Appear in CVPR-19 Workshop on Explainable AI
My coauthors and I will be presenting an extended abstract in the workshop on Explainable AI at CVPR 2019 in June. Below is a preview: Title: To believe or not to believe: Validating explanation fidelity for dynamic malware analysis. Authors: Li Chen (Intel Labs), Carter Yagemann (Georgia Tech), Evan Downing …
- Apr 06, 2019
- Security
Android Intent Firewall Documentation
Awhile ago I was notified that the documentation on Android's Intent Firewall that I wrote while I was a student at Syracuse University is no longer available. Surprisingly, despite how old the document is, I still get requests for it. Thus, I've taken the time to make a copy of …
- Feb 21, 2019
- Security
Malware Has a Color
In an upcoming paper I plan to present some preliminary work in applying machine learning to program control flows to detect anomalies. Specifically, my coauthors and I demonstrate how to use this to analyze document malware with promising accuracy. In previous posts, I've detailed the threat malicious documents pose to …
- Jan 17, 2019
- Security
Upcoming MLsploit Demo at Black Hat Asia 2019
A framework I helped develop called MLsploit will be demoed at Black Hat Asia 2019. You can read more about it here.
- Dec 27, 2018
- Security
Three Kinds of Document Malware and Designing Frameworks to Detect Them
Lately I've been spending a lot of time with document malware and exploring techniques for detection. Malicious documents pose interesting challenges and have become the typical first vector for adversaries to achieve a foothold. Despite this, document malware seems largely overlooked by academics compared to their executable counterparts. In short …
- Sep 05, 2018
- Security
Mention for Georgia Tech Vulnerability Disclosure
Georgia Tech has acknowledged me for a past vulnerability I disclosed to them.