Publications

SLEUTH: Real-time Attack Scenario Reconstruction from COTS Audit Data
Md Nahid Hossain, Sadegh M. Milajerdi, Junao Wang, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, R. Sekar, Scott Stoller, V.N. Venkatakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX SEC)
Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug 16-18, 2017

DynaMiner: Leveraging Offline Infection Analytics for On-the-Wire Malware Detection
Birhanu Eshete, V.N. Venkatakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)
Denver, Colorado, USA, June 26-29, 2017

Chainsaw: Chained Automated Workflow-based Exploit Generation
Abeer Alhuzali, Birhanu Eshete, Rigel Gjomemo, V. N. Venkatakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Vienna, Austria, Oct 24-28, 2016

EKHunter: A Counter-Offensive Toolkit for Exploit Kit Infiltration
Birhanu Eshete, Abeer Alhuzali, Maliheh Monshizadeh, Phillip Porras, V. N. Venkatakrishnan, Vinod Yegneswaran
In Proceedings of the 22nd Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, California, USA, Feb 8-11, 2015

WebWinnow: Leveraging Exploit Kit Workflows to Detect Malicious URLs
Birhanu Eshete, V.N. Venkatakrishnan
In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY)
San Antonio, TX, USA, March 3-5, 2014

Effective Analysis, Characterization, and Detection of Malicious Activities on the Web
Birhanu Eshete
PhD Dissertation, University of Trento
Trento, Italy, December, 2013

EINSPECT: Evolution-Guided Analysis and Detection of Malicious Web Pages
Birhanu Eshete, Adolfo Villafiorita, Komminist Weldemariam, Mohammad Zulkernine
In Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC)
Kyoto, Japan, Jul 22-26, 2013

ConfEagle: Automated Analysis of Security Configuration Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Birhanu Eshete, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita, Mohammad Zulkernine
In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Security and Reliability (SERE)
Washington D.C., USA, June 18-20, 2013

Effective Analysis, Characterization, and Detection of Malicious Web Pages
Birhanu Eshete
In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) companion
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, May, 2013

SAMo: Experimenting a Social Accountability Web Platform
Aaron Ciaghi, Birhanu Eshete, Pietro Molini, Adolfo Villafiorita
In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (ACM DEV)
Bangalore, India, Jan 11-12, 2013

BINSPECT: Holistic Analysis and Detection of Malicious Web Pages
Birhanu Eshete, Adolfo Villafiorita, Komminist Weldemariam
In Proceedings of the 8th Springer EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM)
Padua, Italy, Sep 3-5, 2012

Social Accountability for Mozambique: an Experience Report from the Moamba District
Aaron Ciaghi, Birhanu Eshete, Pietro Molini, Adolfo Villafiorita
In Proceedings of the International IEEE EAI Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries (AFRICOMM)
Yaounde, Cameroon, Nov 12-14, 2012

Early Detection of Security Misconfiguration Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Birhanu Eshete, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita
In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES)
Vienna, Austria, August, 2011

Malicious Website Detection: Effectiveness and Efficiency Issues
Birhanu Eshete, Adolfo Villafiorita, Komminist Weldemariam
In Proceedings of 1st IEEE System Security Workshop (SysSec), Co-Located with DIMVA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2011

Measuring the Impact of Different Metrics on Software Quality: a Case Study in the Open Source Domain
Valentino Sartori, Birhanu Eshete, Adolfo Villafiorita
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS)
Gosier, Guadeloupe, France, February, 2011

Host-based Anomaly Detection for Pervasive Medical Systems
Biniyam Asfaw, Dawit Bekele, Birhanu Eshete, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS)
Montreal, Canada, October, 2010

Context Information Refinement for Pervasive Medical Systems
Birhanu Eshete, Dawit Bekele, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS)
St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, February, 2010
ICDS Best Paper Award!

ICT for Good: Opportunities, Challenges and the Way Forward
Birhanu Eshete, Komminist Weldemariam, Adolfo Villafiorita, Andrea Mattioli
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Digital Society (ICDS)
St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, February, 2010

Context Information Refinement for Pervasive Medical Systems
Birhanu Eshete
Master's Thesis, Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, August, 2007