Side Liu

Side Liu

Wuhan University

Hi, I’m a fourth-year PhD student at the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, supervised by Prof. Guojun Peng. I also work closely with Prof. Jiang Ming and am currently a visiting PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, Tulane University, working under his supervision.

E-mail: sideliu@outlook.com | sidelau@whu.edu.cn

📝 Publications

  • Analyzing PDFs like Binaries: Adversarially Robust PDF Malware Analysis via Intermediate Representation and Language Model
    Side Liu, Jiang Ming, Guodong Zhou, Xinyi Liu, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng
    CCS 2025 (Accepted to appear)

  • VAPD: An Anomaly Detection Model for PDF Malware Forensics with Adversarial Robustness
    Side Liu, Jiang Ming, Yilin Zhou, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng
    USENIX Security 2025

  • A Survey on Android Dynamic Evasive Malware: Taxonomy, Countermeasures and Open Challenges
    Dongni Zhang, Xiuzhang Yang, Side Liu, Yilin Zhou, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng
    Computers & Security, Volume 159, December 2025

  • MODFuzz: A Multi-Objective Directed Fuzzer for USB Drivers
    Yilin Zhou, Guojun Peng, Xingliang Wang, Chenyang Wang, Zichuan Li, Side Liu, Yanhao Wang, Xiuzhang Yang, Jianming Fu
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025

  • A Survey on the Evolution of Fileless Attacks and Detection Techniques
    Side Liu, Guojun Peng, Haitao Zeng, Jianming Fu
    Computers & Security, Volume 137, February 2024

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2023 - Individual Funding from Qi An Xin’s Cyber Security Innovation Project ($7000)
  • 2022 - 2nd at Datacon Data Security Analytics Competition: Cybercrime Analysis Track.
  • 2021 - 4th at Datacon Data Security Analytics Competition: Email Security Track.
  • 2019 - Outstanding Bachelor’s Degree Thesis of Wuhan University.

🎈 Services

  • Program Committee / Conference Reviewer

    • WWW 2025

  • Conference External Reviewer

    • USENIX Secuity 2025, USENIX Secuity 2024

  • Journal Reviewer

    • Cybersecurity

  • Teaching Assistant

    • Software Security@Wuhan University, 2019 Fall, 2021 Fall

💻 Internships

  • 2024.06 - 2024.08, Tencent Keen Lab, China
    • Security research on intrusion detection and analysis, conducting comprehensive analysis of audit logs using provenance graphs and LLMs.