Moheeb Abu Rajab Staff Engineer Google Inc. Ph.D. in Computer Science Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins University e-mail: moheeb (at) cs (dot) jhu (dot) edu

• The Nocebo Effect on the Web: An Analysis of Fake Anti-Virus Distribution.
  Moheeb Abu Rajab, Lucas Ballard , Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Niels Provos, Xin Zhao.
  In proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) 2010. [PDF]
• Peeking Through The Cloud: Client Density Estimation via DNS Cache Probing.
  Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Niels Provos.
  To appear in the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.
• Cybercrime 2.0: When the Cloud Turns Dark.
  Niels Provos, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Panayiotis Mavrommatis. In the Communications of the ACM. April, 2009.
• All Your iFrames Point to Us.
  Niels Provos, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose.
  In proceedings of the 17th USENIX. [PDF]
  Can also be found at Google's Online Security Blog:
  http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-your-iframe-are-point-to-us.html
• Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis, Niels Provos. Peeking Through the Cloud. Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2008).
• Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. My Botnet is Bigger than Yours (Maybe, better than yours): Why Size Estimates Remain Challenging. In Proceedings of USENIX/HotBots, April, 2007. Boston, MA. [PDF]
• Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. On the Impact of Dynamic Addressing on Malware Propagation. In Proceedings of ACM WORM 2006. [PDF]
• Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. A Multifaceted Approach to Understanding the Botnet Phenomenon. In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Oct., 2006. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [PDF]
• Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. Fast and Evasive Attacks: Highlighting the challenges ahead. In proceedings of 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. Proceedings of ACM WORM, Fairfax, VA, November, 2005. [PDF|bib]
• Moheeb Abu Rajab, Fabian Monrose, Andreas Terzis. On the Effectiveness of Distributed Worm Monitoring.Proceeding of the 14th USENIX Security Symposium. August, 2005.  [PDF|bib]
• Robert Cole, Nam Phanamo, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Andreas Terzis. Requirements of Worm Mitigation Technologies in MANETs. Proceedings of PADS-2005, Chicago, IL. June, 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. Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Systems Modeling and Simulation. Los Angeles, CA. March, 2004. [PDF]
• S. Araji, A. J. Al-Dweik, Moheeb Abu Rajab. Fast Switching Frequency Synthesizer Employing Adaptive PLL Operating in the Pseudo-linear Region. Proceedings of International Conference on Communication Systems Modeling and Simulation. March, 1997. 

• The Nocebo Effect on the Web: An Analysis of Fake Anti-Virus Distribution.
  Invited Talk: Stanford University Seminar, May 2010.
• The Nocebo Effect on the Web: An Analysis of Fake Anti-Virus Distribution.
  The 3rd USENIX Workshop on Large Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET) 2010.
• 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.

Technical Program Committee:

• ACM Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS'12).
• USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec 2011).
• The 17th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2010).
• Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2010).
• The ACM 2nd workshop on Virtual Machine Security (VMSec 2009).
• 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).
• International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2008).
• ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode (WORM 2007).
• IEEE First International Workshop on Systems Diagnosis (SYDIA 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:

• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).
• 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).

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.