Zhang JiaAssociate Research Professor
Personal information

FIT 4-204 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 100084

zhangjia # cernet.edu.cn

zhangjia2017 # tsinghua.edu.cn

Research Status

·Associate Research Professor, Institute for Network Science and Cyberspace of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2022-

·Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Network Science and Cyberspace of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2017–2022.

·Senior Researcher, Westone Information Industry INC, Beijing, China, 2015–2016.

·Senior Engineer, Alibaba Group, Beijing, China, 2014–2015.

Education background

·Ph.D., Tsinghua University, July 2010.

·B.S. degree, Shandong University, July 2005.

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

·Network Security, Protocol Vulnerability Analysis

·Internet Infrastructure(DNS, CDN, HTTP etc.) Security Measurement

·Network Behavior Anomaly Detection, Encrypted Traffic Analysis

·Internet Underground Economy Detection

Academic Achievement

1.Bounce in the Wild: A Deep Dive into Email Delivery Failures from a Large Service Provider

Ruixuan Li, Shaodong Xiao, Baojun Liu, Yanzhong Lin, Haixin Duan, Qingfeng Pan, Jianjun Chen,Jia Zhang, Ximeng Liu, Xiuqi Lu, Jun Shao

Inthe IMC 2024, Nov. 4-6, 2024

2.TuDoor Attack: Systematically Exploring and Exploiting Logic Vulnerabilities in DNS Response Pre-processing with Malformed Packets

Xiang Li, Wei Xu, Baojun Liu, Mingming Zhang, Zhou Li,Jia Zhang, Deliang Chang, Xiaofeng Zheng, Chuhan Wang, Jianjun Chen, Haixin Duan, Qi Li

Inthe S&P 2024, May. 20-23, 2024

3.Cross the Zone: Toward a Covert Domain Hijacking via Shared DNS Infrastructure

Yunyi Zhang, Mingming Zhang, Baojun Liu, Zhan Liu,Jia Zhang, Haixin Duan, Min Zhang, Fan Shi, Chengxi Xu

Inthe USENIX Security 2024, August 14–16, 2024

4.Low-Quality Training Data Only? A Robust Framework for Detecting Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic

Yuqi Qing, Qilei Yin, Xinhao Deng, Yihao Chen, Zhuotao Liu, Kun Sun, Ke Xu,Jia Zhang, Qi Li

Inthe NDSS 2024, 26 February - 1 March, 2024

5.Under the Dark: A Systematical Study of Stealthy Mining Pools (Ab)use in the Wild

Zhenrui Zhang, Geng Hong, Xiang Li, Zhuoqun Fu,Jia Zhang*, Mingxuan Liu, Chuhan Wang, Jianjun Chen, Baojun Liu, Haixin Duan, Chao Zhang, Min Yang

Inthe CCS 2023, Nov. 26-30, 2023

6.Stolen Risks of Models with Security Properties

Yue Qin, Zhuoqun Fu, Chuyun Deng, Xiaojing Liao,Jia Zhang, Haixin Duan

Inthe CCS 2023, Nov. 26-30, 2023

7.TsuKing: Coordinating DNS Resolvers and Queries into Potent DoS Amplifiers

Wei Xu, Xiang Li, Chaoyi Lu, Baojun Liu, Haixin Duan,Jia Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Tao Wan

Inthe CCS 2023, Nov. 26-30, 2023

8.Encrypted Malware Traffic Detection via Graph-based Network Analysis

Zhuoqun Fu, Mingxuan Liu, Yue Qin,Jia Zhang*, Yuan Zou, Qilei Yin, Qi Li, Haixin Duan

Inthe RAID 2022, Oct. 26-28, 2022

9.HDiff: A Semi-automatic Framework for Discovering Semantic Gap Attack in HTTP Implementations (Best Paper Runner-Up)

Kaiwen Shen, Jianyu Lu, Yaru Yang, Jianjun Chen, Mingming Zhang, Haixin Duan,Jia Zhang*, Xiaofeng Zheng

Inthe DSN 2022, June, 2022

10.ValCAT: Variable-Length Contextualized Adversarial Transformations Using Encoder-Decoder Language Model

Chuyun Deng, Mingxuan Liu, Yue Qin,Jia Zhang*, Haixin Duan, Donghong Sun

In the Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.(NAACL 2022), July 2022.

11.Mingling of Clear and Muddy Water: Understanding and Detecting Semantic Confusion in Blackhat SEO

Hao Yang, Kun Du, Yubao Zhang, Shuai Hao, Haining Wang,Jia Zhang*, Haixin Duan

Inthe ESORICS 2021, Oct. 4-8, 2021

12.On Evaluating Delegated Digital Signing of Broadcasting Messages in 5G

Hui Gao, Yiming Zhang, Tao Wan,Jia Zhang*, Haixin Duan

Inthe IEEE GLOBECOM 2021, December 2021, p 1-7

13.CDN Backfired: Amplification Attacks Based on HTTP Range Requests (Best Paper Award)

Weizhong Li, Kaiwen Shen, Run Guo, Baojun Liu,Jia Zhang*, Haixin Duan*, Shuang Hao, Xiarun Chen, Yao Wang

Inthe 50th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2020), VALÈNCIA, SPAIN, 29th June - 2th July, 2020

14.CDN Judo: Breaking the CDN DoS Protection with Itself

Run Guo, Weizhong Li, Baojun Liu, Shuang Hao,Jia Zhang*, Haixin Duan*, Kaiwen Shen, Jianjun Chen, Ying Liu

Inthe 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2020), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb 2020