Amin Kharraz

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 427 citations indexed

About

Amin Kharraz is a scholar working on Information Systems, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Amin Kharraz has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 427 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Information Systems, 10 papers in Signal Processing and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Amin Kharraz's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (10 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (5 papers) and Digital and Cyber Forensics (4 papers). Amin Kharraz is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (10 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (5 papers) and Digital and Cyber Forensics (4 papers). Amin Kharraz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and United Kingdom. Amin Kharraz's co-authors include Engin Kirda, William Robertson, Sajjad Arshad, Collin Mulliner, Joshua Mason, Michael Bailey, Zane Ma, Manos Antonakakis, Andrew N. Miller and Charles Lever and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Security & Privacy and USENIX Security Symposium.

In The Last Decade

Amin Kharraz

13 papers receiving 413 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

UNVEIL: a large-scale, automated approach to detecting ransomware

2016 232 citations Amin Kharraz, Sajjad Arshad et al. USENIX Security Symposium profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amin Kharraz United States	7	333	294	254	123	27	14	427
Adwait Nadkarni United States	11	225 0.7×	167 0.6×	103 0.4×	145 1.2×	16 0.6×	19	300
Yuval Fledel Israel	6	421 1.3×	293 1.0×	283 1.1×	153 1.2×	11 0.4×	9	492
Jesse D. Kornblum	7	315 0.9×	301 1.0×	167 0.7×	160 1.3×	130 4.8×	8	447
Jianwei Zhuge China	12	286 0.9×	211 0.7×	228 0.9×	166 1.3×	11 0.4×	32	424
Chin‐Wei Tien Taiwan	9	161 0.5×	169 0.6×	173 0.7×	119 1.0×	16 0.6×	20	322
Duc‐Ly Vu Italy	7	155 0.5×	177 0.6×	112 0.4×	70 0.6×	21 0.8×	21	289
Ekta Gandotra India	11	472 1.4×	260 0.9×	424 1.7×	162 1.3×	17 0.6×	31	520
Carlos Laorden Spain	12	282 0.8×	239 0.8×	262 1.0×	153 1.2×	20 0.7×	24	413
Daniele Ucci Italy	5	348 1.0×	185 0.6×	333 1.3×	162 1.3×	16 0.6×	11	408
Flavio Toffalini Singapore	7	109 0.3×	172 0.6×	155 0.6×	95 0.8×	11 0.4×	20	259

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amin Kharraz

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All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Arış, Ahmet, et al.. (2025). Beyond the Upload Button: A 10-Year Retrospective on Security Issues Within File Upload. IEEE Communications Magazine. 63(2). 104–110.

2.

Acar, Abbas, et al.. (2024). (In)Security of File Uploads in Node.js. 1573–1584. 2 indexed citations

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Arshad, Sajjad, et al.. (2024). The Matter of Captchas: An Analysis of a Brittle Security Feature on the Modern Web. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 1835–1846. 2 indexed citations

4.

Kharraz, Amin, et al.. (2024). DevPhish: Exploring Social Engineering in Software Supply Chain Attacks on Developers. 517–523. 2 indexed citations

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Luo, Dongsheng, et al.. (2024). Breaking the Bot Barrier: Evaluating Adversarial AI Techniques Against Multi-Modal Defense Models. 646–649. 1 indexed citations

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Kharraz, Amin, et al.. (2023). An End-to-End Analysis of Covid-Themed Scams in the Wild. 509–523. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2021). WebSocket Adoption and the Landscape of the Real-Time Web. 1192–1203. 16 indexed citations

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Mirzaei, Omid, et al.. (2021). Preventing server-side request forgery attacks. 1626–1635. 13 indexed citations

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Kharraz, Amin, et al.. (2019). {USBESAFE}: An End-Point Solution to Protect Against USB-Based Attacks. 89–103. 4 indexed citations

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Kharraz, Amin, Zane Ma, Charles Lever, et al.. (2019). Outguard: Detecting In-Browser Covert Cryptocurrency Mining in the Wild. 840–852. 63 indexed citations

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Kharraz, Amin, William Robertson, & Engin Kirda. (2018). Surveylance: Automatically Detecting Online Survey Scams. 70–86. 33 indexed citations

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Kharraz, Amin, William Robertson, & Engin Kirda. (2018). Protecting against Ransomware: A New Line of Research or Restating Classic Ideas?. IEEE Security & Privacy. 16(3). 103–107. 24 indexed citations

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Kharraz, Amin, Sajjad Arshad, Collin Mulliner, William Robertson, & Engin Kirda. (2016). UNVEIL: a large-scale, automated approach to detecting ransomware. USENIX Security Symposium. 757–772. 232 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kharraz, Amin, Engin Kirda, William Robertson, Davide Balzarotti, & Aurélien Francillon. (2014). Optical Delusions: A Study of Malicious QR Codes in the Wild. 192–203. 33 indexed citations

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