Moheeb Rajab
Moheeb Rajab
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
e-mail: moheeb (at) cs (dot) jhu (dot) edu
I obtained my PhD degree in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University. I worked with Prof. Fabian Monrose and Prof. Andreas Terzis. My research interests are in networking and network security.  I also have secondary interest in wireless communications.

Publications
 
  • All Your iFrames Point to Us.
    Niels Provos, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose.
    To appear in proceedings of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium.

  • Peeking Through The Cloud: DNS-based Estimation and its Applications.
    Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis, Niels Provos.
    To appear in proceedings of the 6th Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2008). [PDF]

  • My Botnet is Bigger than Yours (Maybe, better than yours): Why Size Estimates Remain Challenging.
    Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis.
    In Proceedings of USENIX/HotBots, April, 2007. Boston, MA. [PDF]

  • On the Impact of Dynamic Addressing on Malware Propagation.
    Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis.
    In proceedings of ACM WORM, Fairfax, VA, November, 2006. [PDF]

  • A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding the Botnet Phenomenon.
    Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis.
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Oct., 2006. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    [PDF|bib]

  • Fast and Evasive Attacks: Highlighting the challenges ahead.
    Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis.
    In proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Sept, 2006, Hamburg, Germany. [PDF]

  • Worm Evolution Tracking via Timing Analysis.
    Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis.
    Proceedings of ACM WORM, Fairfax, VA, November, 2005. [PDF|bib]

  • On the Effectiveness of Distributed Worm Monitoring.
    Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis.
    Proceeding of the 14th USENIX Security Symposium. August, 2005.  [PDF|bib]

  • Requirements of Worm Mitigation Technologies in MANETs.
    Robert Cole, Nam Phanamo, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Andreas Terzis.
    Proceedings of PADS-2005, Chicago, IL. June, 2005. [PDF]

  • On the Analysis of Frequency-Hopped Multiple-Access Communication with Non-coherent OFDM-ASK in AWGN Channels.
    A. J. Al-Dweik, Moheeb Abu Rajab. Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Systems Modeling and Simulation. Los Angeles, CA. March, 2004. [PDF]

  • Fast Switching Frequency Synthesizer Employing Adaptive PLL Operating in the Pseudo-linear Region.
    S. Araji, A. J. Al-Dweik, Moheeb Abu Rajab.
    Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Systems Modeling and Simulation. March, 1997. 

Talks

  • Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. My Botnet is Bigger than Yours (Maybe, better than yours): Why Size Estimates Remain Challenging. Presented at USENIX/HotBots, April, 2007. Boston, MA.

  • Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. On the Impact of Dynamic Addressing on Malware Propagation. Presented at ACM WORM, Nov., 2006. Virginia

  • Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding the Botnet Phenomenon. Presented at ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Oct., 2006. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. A Longitudinal Analysis of Botnet Dynamics: Challenges, Insights and Lessons Learned. Presented at Tech. Exchange, Symantec Corp. Oct, 2006.

  • Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. Fast and Evasive Attacks: Highlighting the challenges ahead. Presented at the 9th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Sept, 2006, Hamburg, Germany. [PDF]

  • Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. Worm Evolution Tracking via Timing Analysis. Presented at ACM WORM, Fairfax, VA, November, 2005. [PDF]

  • Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. On the Effectiveness of Distributed Worm Monitoring.Presented at the 14th USENIX Security Symposium. August, 2005. [PDF]

  • A. J. Al-Dweik, Moheeb Abu Rajab. On the Analysis of Frequency-Hopped Multiple-Access Communication with Non-coherent OFDM-ASK in AWGN Channels. Presented at the International Conference on Communication Systems Modeling and Simulation. Los Angeles, CA. March, 2004.

Community Services

Technical Program Committee:

  • USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET 2009).
  • USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec 2008).
  • USENIX Workshop on Large-scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET 2008).
  • ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode (WORM 2007).

Journal Reviews:

  • ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security (ACM TISSEC).
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM ToIT).
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers.

External Reviews:

  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland).
  • IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM).
  • USENIX Security Symposium.
  • Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS).
  • ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC).
  • Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS).
  • ACM Workshop on Recurring Malware (WORM).
  • USENIX workshop on hot topics in security (HotSec).
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications and Networks (ICCCN).

Memberships

Academic Memberships:

  • Student member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • Student member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
  • Student member, The Advanced Computing Systems Association (USENIX).

Other Memberships:

  • Member of the Fulbright Alumni Association.

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Conferences