About

About me 🤓

Yiwen Xu is a security researcher and a postgraduate student at Tsinghua University, focusing on migitations against IoT malware attacks and also keen to vulnerability exploitation skills as well as fuzzing.

Please drop me an email (xuyiwen14@gmail.com) to contact if anything meets your interests.

Education

2020–2023 Tsinghua University, Software Engineering, Supervised by Prof. Yu Jiang.

• Ranking – 5/84, GPA – 3.95/4.00

2016–2020 Hunan University, Information(Cyber) Security.

• Ranking – 1/47, GPA – 3.91/4.00

Research Interests

• IoT Security

• Vulnerability Exploitation or CTF PWN

• Fuzzing

• Operating System

Publications

Midas: Safeguarding IoT Devices Against Malware via Real-Time Behavior Auditing. (EMSOFT’22)

Yiwen Xu*, Zijing Yin* (Co-First), Yiwei Hou, Yu Jiang.

Empirical Study of System Resources Abused by IoT Attackers. (ASE’22)

Zijing Yin*, Yiwen Xu* (Co-First), Chijin Zhou, Yu Jiang.

EM-Fuzz: Augmented Firmware Fuzzing via Memory Checking. (EMSOFT’20 - Best Paper Nominee.)

Jian Gao, Yiwen Xu, Yu Jiang, Zhe Liu,Wanli Chang, Xun Jiao, Jiaguang Sun.

Scanner++: Enhanced Vulnerability Detection of Web Applications with Attack Intent Synchronization. (TOSEM’21)

Zijing Yin, Yiwen Xu, Fuchen Ma, Haohao Gao, Lei Qiao, Yu Jiang.

Brief Industry Paper: Catching IoT Malware in the Wild Using HoneyIoT. (RTAS’21)

Yiwen Xu, Yu Jiang, Lu Yu, Juan Li.

Hobby

1. Fingerstyle Guitar
   • Love playing songs, like Red shoes dance, Let It Go, Say Something, Closer, etc.
   • Enjoy music from my favorite fingersyle guitarist Kotaro Oshio, a super star in many Asian countries and playing many beautiful songs. Everyone can listen his music time after time from sunrise till sunset!!!
2. Photography
   • Record slight changes in my life, keeping me motivated to take more photos.
   • See the Gallery Tab of my blog.
3. Badminton
   • Keep exercising
   • Happy teamwork and cooperation with my doubles partners.