Cached and Confused: Web Cache Deception in the Wild
Seyed Ali Mirheidari, Sajjad Arshad, Kaan Onarlioglu, Bruno Crispo, Engin Kirda, William Robertson
USENIX Security Symposium
Boston, MA, USA, August 2020
(PortSwigger's Top Web Hacking Technique of 2019)
(CSAW 2020's Applied Research Competition Finalist)
(PwnieAwards's Most Innovative Research Nominee)

HotFuzz: Discovering Algorithmic Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities Through Guided Micro-Fuzzing
William Blair, Andrea Mambretti, Sajjad Arshad, Michael Weissbacher, William Robertson, Engin Kirda, Manuel Egele
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, USA, February 2020

A Longitudinal Analysis of the ads.txt Standard
Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Sajjad Arshad, Engin Kirda, William Robertson, Christo Wilson
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2019

Understanding and Mitigating the Security Risks of Content Inclusion in Web Browsers
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Thesis
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Boston, MA, USA, April 2019

On the Effectiveness of Type-based Control Flow Integrity
Reza Mirzazade farkhani, Saman Jafari, Sajjad Arshad, William Robertson, Engin Kirda, Hamed Okhravi
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, December 2018

How Tracking Companies Circumvented Ad Blockers Using WebSockets
Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Sajjad Arshad, Engin Kirda, William Robertson, Christo Wilson
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Boston, MA, USA, October 2018

How Tracking Companies Circumvent Ad Blockers Using WebSockets
Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Sajjad Arshad, Engin Kirda, William Robertson, Christo Wilson
IEEE S&P Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro)
San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2018

Large-Scale Analysis of Style Injection by Relative Path Overwrite
Sajjad Arshad, Seyed Ali Mirheidari, Tobias Lauinger, Bruno Crispo, Engin Kirda, William Robertson
The Web Conference (WWW)
Lyon, France, April 2018
(Honorable Mention)

Thou Shalt Not Depend on Me: Analysing the Use of Outdated JavaScript Libraries on the Web
Tobias Lauinger, Abdelberi Chaabane, Sajjad Arshad, William Robertson, Christo Wilson, Engin Kirda
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, USA, February 2017

"Recommended For You": A First Look at Content Recommendation Networks
Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Sajjad Arshad, Christo Wilson
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Santa Monica, CA, USA, November 2016

Identifying Extension-based Ad Injection via Fine-grained Web Content Provenance
Sajjad Arshad, Amin Kharraz, William Robertson
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID)
Paris, France, September 2016

Tracing Information Flows Between Ad Exchanges Using Retargeted Ads
Muhammad Ahmad Bashir, Sajjad Arshad, William Robertson, Christo Wilson
USENIX Security Symposium
Austin, TX, USA, August 2016

UNVEIL: A Large-Scale, Automated Approach to Detecting Ransomware
Amin Kharraz, Sajjad Arshad, Collin Muliner, William Robertson, Engin Kirda
USENIX Security Symposium
Austin, TX, USA, August 2016

Include Me Out: In-Browser Detection of Malicious Third-Party Content Inclusions
Sajjad Arshad, Amin Kharraz, William Robertson
International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)
Barbados, February 2016

Alert Correlation Algorithms: A Survey and Taxonomy
Seyed Ali Mirheidari, Sajjad Arshad, Rasool Jalili
Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS), Springer, vol 8300, pp 183-197
Zhangjiajie, China, November 2013

A Comprehensive Approach to Abusing Locality in Shared Web Hosting Servers
Seyed Ali Mirheidari, Sajjad Arshad, Saeidreza Khoshkdahan, Rasool Jalili
IEEE Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom)
Melbourne, Australia, July 2013

Two Novel Server-Side Attacks against Log File in Shared Web Hosting Servers
Seyed Ali Mirheidari, Sajjad Arshad, Saeidreza Khoshkdahan, Rasool Jalili
IEEE Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST)
London, UK, December 2012

Performance Evaluation of Shared Hosting Security Methods
Seyed Ali Mirheidari, Sajjad Arshad, Saeidreza Khoshkdahan
IEEE Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom)
Liverpool, UK, June 2012

An Anomaly-based Botnet Detection Approach for Identifying Stealthy Botnets
Sajjad Arshad, Maghsoud Abbaspour, Mehdi Kharrazi, Hooman Sanatkar
IEEE Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE)
Penang, Malaysia, December 2011

Botnet Detection based on Anomaly Behaviors in Network Traffic
Master Thesis
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University
Tehran, Iran, March 2011

A Disk Scheduling Algorithm Based on ANT Colony Optimization
Hossein Rahmani, Sajjad Arshad, Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam
ISCA Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems (PDCCS)
Louisville, KY, USA, September 2009