Publications

Conference Publications

• [NDSS 2016]It’s Free for a Reason: Exploring the Ecosystem of Free Live Streaming Services. M. Zubair Rafique, Tom Van Goethem, Wouter Joosen, Christophe Huygens, Nick Nikiforakis. In Proceedings of the 2016 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, February, 2016. [Acceptance Rate: 15.4%]
  Media Coverage: BBC , TechWeekEurope , Trusted Reviews , Advanced Television , After Dawn , Anonymous Headquarter
• [ACSAC 2014] Network Dialog Minimization and Network Dialog Diffing: Two Novel
  Primitives for Network Security Applications. M. Zubair Rafique, Juan Caballero, Christophe Huygens, Wouter Joosen. Accepted in 30th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 2014.
• [GECCO 2014] Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification of Malware Families through Different Network Behaviors. M. Zubair Rafique, Ping Chen, Christophe Huygens, Wouter Joosen. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2014 Vancouver, Canada, 2014.
• [WWW 2014] Stranger Danger: Exploring the Ecosystem of Ad-based URL Shortening Services. Nick Nikiforakis, Federico Maggi, Gianluca Stringhini, M. Zubair Rafique, Wouter Joosen, Christopher Kruegel, Frank Piessens, Giovanni Vigna, Stefano Zanero. 23rd International World Wide Web Conference Seoul, Korea, 2014.
• [NDSS 2014] CyberProbe: Towards Internet-Scale Active Detection of Malicious Servers. Antonio Nappa, Zhaoyan Xu, M. Zubair Rafique, Juan Caballero, and Guofei Gu. 2014 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium San Diego, CA, USA, 2014.
• [RAID 2013] FIRMA: Malware Clustering and Network Signature Generation with Mixed Network Behaviors. M. Zubair Rafique and Juan Caballero. 16th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses St. Lucia, 2013.
• [DIMVA 2013] Driving in the Cloud: An Analysis of Drive-by Download Operations and Abuse Reporting. Antonio Nappa, M. Zubair Rafique and Juan Caballero.10th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment Berlin Germany.
• [CCS 2012] Manufacturing Compromise: The Emergence of Exploit-as-a-Service. Chris Grier, Lucas Ballard, Juan Caballero, Neha Chachra, Christian J. Dietrich, Kirill Levchenko, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Andreas Pitsillidis, Niels Provos, M. Zubair Rafique, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Christian Rossow, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker. 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security Ralyegh, NC, USA 2012.
• [STA 2011] Embedding High Capacity Covert Channels in Short Message Service (SMS).M. Zubair Rafique, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Khaled Alghatbar, Muddassar Farooq. 8th FIRA International Conference on Secure and Trust Computing, Data Management and Applications, Loutraki, Greece,, 2011.
• [GECCO 2011] Application of Evolutionary Algorithms in Detecting SMS Spam at Acess Layer. M. Zubair Rafique, Naseer Al Rayees, Khurram Khan. 16th Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference Dublin , Ireland, 2011. *Runner-up for the Best Paper Award
• [VB 2010] SMS SPAM Detection By Operating On Byte-Level Distributions Using
  Hidden Markov Models (HMMs).M. Zubair Rafique and Muddassar Farooq. Virus Bulletin Vancouver, Canada 2010.
• [GLOBECOM 2009] Evaluating DoS Attacks Against SIP-Based VoIP Systems. M. Zubair Rafique, M. Ali Akbar and Muddassar Farooq. 28th the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference Hawai, HI, USA, 2009.

Journal Publications

• [IJIS 2015] The MALICIA dataset: Identification and Analysis of drive-by download Operations. Antonio Nappa, M. Zubair Rafique, Juan Caballero. International Journal of Information Security, pp: 1-19, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, February 2015. [ISI SCI-E]
• [Information 2012] Securing Smart Phones against Malicious Exploits. M. Zubair Rafique, Faraz Ahmed, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Muddassar Farooq. Information, vol. 15, no. 2, pp: 903-922, Feb 2012. [ISI SCI-E]