Sergio Pastrana

936 total citations
35 papers, 518 citations indexed

About

Sergio Pastrana is a scholar working on Information Systems, Signal Processing and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergio Pastrana has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 518 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Information Systems, 15 papers in Signal Processing and 12 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Sergio Pastrana's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (15 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (12 papers) and Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (9 papers). Sergio Pastrana is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (15 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (12 papers) and Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (9 papers). Sergio Pastrana collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Sergio Pastrana's co-authors include Alice Hutchings, Guillermo Suárez‐Tangil, Daniel Thomas, Richard Clayton, Pedro Peris‐Lopez, Juan Tapiador, Agustín Orfila, Lorena González‐Manzano, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa and Alastair R. Beresford and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Sergio Pastrana

35 papers receiving 485 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sergio Pastrana Spain	14	294	196	169	167	105	35	518
Ahmed Aleroud United States	12	361 1.2×	319 1.6×	278 1.6×	234 1.4×	82 0.8×	50	619
Carlos Gañán Netherlands	14	310 1.1×	302 1.5×	235 1.4×	169 1.0×	97 0.9×	61	589
Bei-Tseng Chu United States	12	339 1.2×	186 0.9×	262 1.6×	153 0.9×	237 2.3×	29	577
Apostolis Zarras Germany	11	300 1.0×	224 1.1×	261 1.5×	309 1.9×	49 0.5×	28	499
Giancarlo Pellegrino Germany	12	370 1.3×	145 0.7×	259 1.5×	244 1.5×	68 0.6×	35	520
Naoto Yanai Japan	10	367 1.2×	200 1.0×	302 1.8×	78 0.5×	69 0.7×	63	590
Giampaolo Bella Italy	15	333 1.1×	342 1.7×	262 1.6×	81 0.5×	118 1.1×	90	588
Yi Han Australia	9	278 0.9×	167 0.9×	250 1.5×	82 0.5×	114 1.1×	38	507
Paul Pearce United States	9	282 1.0×	224 1.1×	269 1.6×	321 1.9×	70 0.7×	26	523
Antonio Maña Spain	12	249 0.8×	165 0.8×	209 1.2×	56 0.3×	104 1.0×	70	430

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergio Pastrana

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sergio Pastrana. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sergio Pastrana based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sergio Pastrana. Sergio Pastrana is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Alonso, Mónica, et al.. (2025). ESPSGrid: Emulation-simulation for power smart grids. SoftwareX. 31. 102307–102307. 2 indexed citations

Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2024). Threat Analysis and Adversarial Model for Smart Grids. 130–145. 1 indexed citations

Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2024). The Art of Cybercrime Community Research. ACM Computing Surveys. 56(6). 1–26. 6 indexed citations

Αναγνωστόπουλος, Μάριος, et al.. (2024). Redefining Malware Sandboxing: Enhancing Analysis Through Sysmon and ELK Integration. IEEE Access. 12. 68624–68636. 3 indexed citations

Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2024). IoC Stalker: Early detection of Indicators of Compromise. i–xvii. 2 indexed citations

Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2023). Towards realistic privacy-preserving deep learning over encrypted medical data. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine. 10. 1117360–1117360. 6 indexed citations

Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2023). HEFactory: A symbolic execution compiler for privacy-preserving Deep Learning with Homomorphic Encryption. SoftwareX. 22. 101396–101396. 2 indexed citations

Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2022). Examining the trends and operations of modern Dark-Web marketplaces. 8 indexed citations

Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2022). Towards Realistic Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Inference Over Encrypted Data. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2022). An analysis of fake social media engagement services. Computers & Security. 124. 103013–103013. 7 indexed citations

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Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2021). Trouble Over-The-Air: An Analysis of FOTA Apps in the Android Ecosystem. 1606–1622. 9 indexed citations

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Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2021). A Methodology For Large-Scale Identification of Related Accounts in Underground Forums. Computers & Security. 111. 102489–102489. 11 indexed citations

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Pastrana, Sergio & Guillermo Suárez‐Tangil. (2019). A First Look at the Crypto-Mining Malware Ecosystem. Research Portal (King's College London). 73–86. 51 indexed citations

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Caines, Andrew, Sergio Pastrana, Alice Hutchings, & Paula Buttery. (2018). Aggressive language in an online hacking forum. 66–74. 7 indexed citations

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Caines, Andrew, Sergio Pastrana, Alice Hutchings, & Paula Buttery. (2018). Automatically identifying the function and intent of posts in underground forums. Crime Science. 7(1). 19–19. 24 indexed citations

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Pastrana, Sergio, Daniel Thomas, Alice Hutchings, & Richard Clayton. (2018). CrimeBB. 1845–1854. 81 indexed citations

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Pastrana, Sergio, et al.. (2016). ArduWorm: A functional malware targeting arduino devices. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 117–124. 4 indexed citations

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Fuentes, José M. de, Pedro Peris‐Lopez, Juan Tapiador, & Sergio Pastrana. (2015). Probabilistic yoking proofs for large scale IoT systems. Ad Hoc Networks. 32. 43–52. 11 indexed citations

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Pastrana, Sergio, Juan Tapiador, Agustín Orfila, & Pedro Peris‐Lopez. (2015). DEFIDNET: A framework for optimal allocation of cyberdefenses in Intrusion Detection Networks. Computer Networks. 80. 66–88. 13 indexed citations

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Pastrana, Sergio, Agustín Orfila, & Arturo Ribagorda. (2010). Modeling NIDS Evasion with Genetic Programming.. e-Archivo (Carlos III University of Madrid). 444–448. 3 indexed citations

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