Selected Publications

• Syntia: Synthesizing the Semantics of Obfuscated Code
  USENIX Security Symposium 2017 (USENIX Security 2017)
  Tim Blazytko, Moritz Contag, Cornelius Aschermann, Thorsten Holz.
  Paper   Slides (external)

  Additionally to USENIX Security, this work has been presented at the 34^th Chaos Communication Congress in Leipzig, REcon Brussels 2018, as well as Black Hat Asia 2018 in Singapore.

• How They Did It: An Analysis of Emission Defeat Devices in Modern Automobiles
  Symposium on Security & Privacy 2017 (S&P 2017)
  Moritz Contag, Guo Li, Andre Pawlowski, Felix Domke, Kirill Levchenko, Thorsten Holz, Stefan Savage.
  Paper   Slides   Recording  

  Additionally to S&P, I presented the work at HackPra in Bochum as well as the 15^th escar Europe conference in Berlin. Our work has also been picked up by various media outlets such as Ars Technica, The Register, Bloomberg, the morning paper, tagesschau, and heise online.

• MARX: Uncovering Class Hierarchies in C++ Programs
  Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2017 (NDSS 2017)
  Andre Pawlowski, Moritz Contag, Victor van der Veen, Chris Ouwehand, Thorsten Holz, Herbert Bos, Elias Athanasopoulos, Cristiano Giuffrida.
  Paper   Recording   Repository

• A Tough Call: Mitigating Advanced Code-Reuse Attacks at the Binary Level
  Symposium on Security & Privacy 2016 (S&P 2016)
  Victor van der Veen*, Enes Göktas*, Moritz Contag, Andre Pawlowski, Xi Chen, Sanjay Rawat, Herbert Bos, Thorsten Holz, Elias Athanasopoulos, Cristiano Giuffrida.
  * Equal contribution joint first authors.
  Paper   Recording   Repository

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Current Anti-ROP Defenses
  International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses 2014 (RAID 2014)
  Felix Schuster, Thomas Tendyck, Jannik Pewny, Andreas Maaß, Martin Steegmanns, Moritz Contag, Thorsten Holz.
  Paper