About

I am a PhD candidate at IMDEA Software Institute. I work under the supervison of Juan Caballero.
I did my Master of Sciences in Information Technology (MSIT) from
NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) in 2010.
I worked on my thesis under the supervision of Syed Ali Khayam.
View further details on my homepage or Google Scholar.

Research Interests

• System and network security
• Malware and binary code analysis
• Binary code similarity
• Intrusion and anomaly detection

Refreed Publications

• Malware Lineage in the Wild
  Irfan Ul Haq, Sergio Chica, Juan Caballero, and Somesh Jha
  In Elsevier Computers & Security -- Journal (COSE), September, 2018
  [.pdf] [.ppt]
  


• Ayudante: Identifying Undesired Variable Interactions
  Irfan Ul Haq, Juan Caballero, and Michael D. Ernst
  13th International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA), October 26, 2015. Pittsburgh, USA.
  [.pdf] [.ppt]
  


• What is the Impact of P2P Traffic on Anomaly Detection?
  Irfan Ul Haq, Sardar Ali, Hassan Khan, and Syed Ali Khayam
  13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), September 15-17, 2010. Ottawa, Canada.
  [.pdf] [.ppt]
  


• On Mitigating Sampling-Induced Accuracy Loss in Traffic Anomaly Detection Systems
  Sardar Ali, Irfan Ul Haq, Sajjad Rizvi, Naurin Rasheed, Unum Sarfraz, Syed Ali Khayam, and Fauzan Mirza
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), July 2010.
  [.pdf]
  

Professional Services

• Committee Member Artifact Evaluation:
  2018: ACSAC

• External Reviewer:
  2016: ARES

Conference and Seminar Talks

• Malware Lineage in the Wild
  IMDEA Software Institute, 2017, Madrid, Spain

• Ayudante: Identifying Undesired Variable Interactions
  
  • Jornadas Nacionales de Investigacin en Ciberseguridad, 2016, Garanda, Spain.
  • IMDEA Software Institute 2016, Madrid, Spain.
  • 13th International Workshop on Dynamic Aanalysis 2015, Pittsburg, USA.
  • Microsoft PhD Summer School 2015. Cambridge, UK.

• What is the Impact of P2P Traffic on Anomaly Detection
  International Symposium on Recent Advance in Intrusion Detection, 2010, Ottawa, Canada.

Thesis

• Evaluation of Anomaly Detection Sytems under P2P Traffic [.pdf]
  Advisor: Syed Ali Khaym
  NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (SEECS), Islamabad, Pakistan.