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Overview

Juan Caballero is affiliated with the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the domain of Computer Science, with a specialization in various subfields such as Information Systems, Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, and Software.

The main topics covered in their work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Spam and Phishing Detection, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, Software Engineering Research, Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies, and Authorship Attribution and Profiling.

Juan Caballero's recent publications include:

  • "A Survey of Binary Code Similarity," 2021, ACM Computing Surveys
  • "AVclass2: Massive Malware Tag Extraction from AV Labels," 2020, Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • "AVClass2: Massive Malware Tag Extraction from AV Labels," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "The Rise of GoodFATR: A Novel Accuracy Comparison Methodology for Indicator Extraction Tools," 2023, Future Generation Computer Systems
  • "Watch Your Back," 2022, Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Frequent co-authors in Caballero's research include Silvia Sebastián, Platon Kotzias, Gibran Gómez, Leyla Bilge, and Matteo Dell'Amico. Their collaboration with these co-authors reflects recurring engagement in network security, malware analysis, and related topics.

Juan Caballero has contributed to multiple publication venues, including arXiv (Cornell University), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACM Computing Surveys, Future Generation Computer Systems, and the Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. The distribution of publications indicates a strong presence in both peer-reviewed conferences and preprint archives.

Best Publications

  • BitBlaze: A New Approach to Computer Security via Binary Analysis

    Dawn Song;David Brumley;Heng Yin;Juan Caballero

  • Polyglot: automatic extraction of protocol message format using dynamic binary analysis

    Juan Caballero;Heng Yin;Zhenkai Liang;Dawn Song

  • AVclass : A Tool for Massive Malware Labeling

    Marcos Sebastián;Richard Rivera;Richard Rivera;Platon Kotzias;Platon Kotzias;Juan Caballero

  • An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results in the CLARITY Challenge.

    Catherine A. Brownstein;Alan H. Beggs;Nils Homer;Barry Merriman

  • Measuring pay-per-install: the commoditization of malware distribution

    Juan Caballero;Chris Grier;Christian Kreibich;Vern Paxson

  • Dispatcher: enabling active botnet infiltration using automatic protocol reverse-engineering

    Juan Caballero;Pongsin Poosankam;Christian Kreibich;Dawn Song

  • Manufacturing compromise: the emergence of exploit-as-a-service

    Chris Grier;Lucas Ballard;Juan Caballero;Neha Chachra

  • KAVIAR: an accessible system for testing SNV novelty

    Gustavo Glusman;Juan Caballero;Denise E. Mauldin;Leroy E. Hood

  • Undangle: early detection of dangling pointers in use-after-free and double-free vulnerabilities

    Juan Caballero;Gustavo Grieco;Mark Marron;Antonio Nappa

  • Binary Code Extraction and Interface Identification for Security Applications

    Juan Caballero;Noah M. Johnson;Stephen McCamant;Dawn Song

  • The Attack of the Clones: A Study of the Impact of Shared Code on Vulnerability Patching

    Antonio Nappa;Richard Johnson;Leyla Bilge;Juan Caballero

  • Towards automatic discovery of deviations in binary implementations with applications to error detection and fingerprint generation

    David Brumley;Juan Caballero;Zhenkai Liang;James Newsome

  • Secure Content Sniffing for Web Browsers, or How to Stop Papers from Reviewing Themselves

    Adam Barth;Juan Caballero;Dawn Song

  • Insights from the inside: a view of botnet management from infiltration

    Chia Yuan Cho;Juan Caballero;Chris Grier;Vern Paxson

  • FIRMA: Malware Clustering and Network Signature Generation with Mixed Network Behaviors

    M. Zubair Rafique;Juan Caballero

  • A Survey of Binary Code Similarity

    Irfan Ul Haq;Juan Caballero

  • Driving in the cloud: an analysis of drive-by download operations and abuse reporting

    Antonio Nappa;M. Zubair Rafique;Juan Caballero

  • AVclass2: Massive Malware Tag Extraction from AV Labels

    Silvia Sebastián;Juan Caballero

  • The MALICIA dataset: identification and analysis of drive-by download operations

    Antonio Nappa;M. Zubair Rafique;Juan Caballero

  • Automatic protocol reverse-engineering: Message format extraction and field semantics inference

    Juan Caballero;Dawn Song

  • Differential Slicing: Identifying Causal Execution Differences for Security Applications

    Noah M. Johnson;Juan Caballero;Kevin Zhijie Chen;Stephen McCamant

  • A Lustrum of Malware Network Communication: Evolution and Insights

    Chaz Lever;Platon Kotzias;Davide Balzarotti;Juan Caballero

  • The Attack of the Clones: A Study of the Impact of Shared Code on Vulnerability Patching

    Richard Johnson;Antonio Nappa;Leyla Bilge;Juan Caballero

Frequent Co-Authors

Dawn Song
Dawn Song University of California, Berkeley
Gwênlyn Glusman
Gwênlyn Glusman Institute for Systems Biology
Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood University of Washington
Zhenkai Liang
Zhenkai Liang National University of Singapore
Zhiqiang Lin
Zhiqiang Lin The Ohio State University
Nathan D. Price
Nathan D. Price University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vern Paxson
Vern Paxson University of California, Berkeley
David A. Ray
David A. Ray Texas Tech University
Anna Wedell
Anna Wedell Karolinska University Hospital

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