TU Wien Informatics

Roles

2025

2024

2023

  • The Threat of Surveillance and the Need for Privacy Protections / Lindorfer, M. (2023). The Threat of Surveillance and the Need for Privacy Protections. In H. Werthner, C. Ghezzi, J. Kramer, J. Nida-Rümelin, B. Nuseibeh, E. Prem, & A. Stanger (Eds.), Introduction to Digital Humanism : A Textbook (pp. 593–609). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45304-5_37
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  • IoTFlow: Inferring IoT Device Behavior at Scale through Static Mobile Companion App Analysis / Schmidt, D., Tagliaro, C., Borgolte, K., & Lindorfer, M. (2023). IoTFlow: Inferring IoT Device Behavior at Scale through Static Mobile Companion App Analysis. In CCS ’23: Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 681–695). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576915.3623211
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    Projects: IoTIO (2020–2025) / W4MP (2023–2027)
  • Connecting the .dotfiles: Checked-In Secret Exposure with Extra (Lateral Movement) Steps / Jungwirth, G., Saha, A., Schröder, M., Fiebig, T., Lindorfer, M., & Cito, J. (2023). Connecting the .dotfiles: Checked-In Secret Exposure with Extra (Lateral Movement) Steps. In IEEE/ACM 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (pp. 322–333). https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00051
    Project: IoTIO (2020–2025)
  • Heads in the Clouds? Measuring Universities’ Migration to Public Clouds: Implications for Privacy & Academic Freedom / Fiebig, T., Gürses, S., Hernández Gañán, C., Kotkamp, E., Kuipers, F., Lindorfer, M., Prisse, M., & Sari, T. (2023). Heads in the Clouds? Measuring Universities’ Migration to Public Clouds: Implications for Privacy & Academic Freedom. In M. L. Mazurek & M. Sherr (Eds.), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (pp. 117–150). De Gruyter Open / Sciendo. https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2023-0044
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  • Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers / Pradeep, A., Feal, Á., Gamba, J., Rao, A., Lindorfer, M., Vallina-Rodriguez, N., & Choffnes, D. (2023). Not Your Average App: A Large-scale Privacy Analysis of Android Browsers. In M. L. Mazurek & M. Sherr (Eds.), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2023 (pp. 29–46). https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2023-0003
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    Projects: IoTIO (2020–2025) / SPFBT (2020–2027)
  • Of Ahead Time: Evaluating Disassembly of Android Apps Compiled to Binary OATs Through the ART / Bleier, J., & Lindorfer, M. (2023). Of Ahead Time: Evaluating Disassembly of Android Apps Compiled to Binary OATs Through the ART. In J. Polakis & E. van der Kouwe (Eds.), EUROSEC ’23: Proceedings of the 16th European Workshop on System Security (pp. 21–29). https://doi.org/10.1145/3578357.3591219
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    Projects: IoTIO (2020–2025) / SPFBT (2020–2027)
  • Mixed Signals: Analyzing Software Attribution Challenges in the Android Ecosystem / Hageman, K., Feal, A., Gamba, J., Girish, A., Bleier, J., Lindorfer, M., Tapiador, J., & Vallina-Rodriguez, N. (2023). Mixed Signals: Analyzing Software Attribution Challenges in the Android Ecosystem. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 49(4), 2964–2979. https://doi.org/10.34726/5296
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    Projects: IoTIO (2020–2025) / SPFBT (2020–2027)
  • Back-to-the-Future Whois: An IP Address Attribution Service for Working with Historic Datasets / Streibelt, F., Lindorfer, M., Gürses, S., Hernández Gañán, C., & Fiebig, T. (2023). Back-to-the-Future Whois: An IP Address Attribution Service for Working with Historic Datasets. In Passive and Active Measurement : 24th International Conference, PAM 2023, Virtual Event, March 21–23, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 209–226). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28486-1_10
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  • I Still Know What You Watched Last Sunday: Privacy of the HbbTV Protocol in the European Smart TV Landscape / Tagliaro, C., Hahn, F., Sepe, R., Aceti, A., & Lindorfer, M. (2023). I Still Know What You Watched Last Sunday: Privacy of the HbbTV Protocol in the European Smart TV Landscape. In Proceedings Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2023. 30th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2023, San Diego, United States of America (the). https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2023.24102
    Projects: IoTIO (2020–2025) / SPFBT (2020–2027)
  • Investigating HbbTV Privacy Invasiveness Across European Countries / Tagliaro, C., Hahn, F., Sepe, R., Aceti, A., & Lindorfer, M. (2023). Investigating HbbTV Privacy Invasiveness Across European Countries. In Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) 2023. Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER 2023), San Diego, United States of America (the). https://doi.org/10.14722/laser-ndss.2023.24102
    Project: IoTIO (2020–2025)

2022

2021

  • Tarnhelm: Isolated, Transparent & Confidential Execution of Arbitrary Code in ARM's TrustZone / Quarta, D., Ianni, M., Machiry, A., Fratantonio, Y., Gustafson, E., Balzarotti, D., Lindorfer, M., Vigna, G., & Kruegel, C. (2021). Tarnhelm: Isolated, Transparent & Confidential Execution of Arbitrary Code in ARM’s TrustZone. In Proceedings of the 2021 Research on offensive and defensive techniques in the Context of Man At The End (MATE) Attacks. ACM, Austria. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3465413.3488571
    Project: IoTIO (2020–2025)

2020

  • When Malware is Packin' Heat; Limits of Machine Learning Classifiers Based on Static Analysis Features / Aghakhani, H., Gritti, F., Mecca, F., Lindorfer, M., Ortolani, S., Balzarotti, D., Vigna, G., & Krügel, C. (2020). When Malware is Packin’ Heat; Limits of Machine Learning Classifiers Based on Static Analysis Features. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). 27th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2020), San Diego, CA, United States of America (the). Internet Society. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/58307
  • FlowPrint: Semi-Supervised Mobile-App Fingerprinting on Encrypted Network Traffic / van Ede, T., Bortolameotti, R., Continella, A., Ren, J., Dubois, D., Lindorfer, M., Choffnes, D., van Steen, M., & Peter, A. (2020). FlowPrint: Semi-Supervised Mobile-App Fingerprinting on Encrypted Network Traffic. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). 27th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2020), San Diego, CA, United States of America (the). Internet Society. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/58308
  • TXTing 101: Finding Security Issues in the Long Tail of DNS TXT Records / der Toorn, O. van, van Rijswijk-Deij, R., Fiebig, T., Lindorfer, M., & Sperotto, A. (2020). TXTing 101: Finding Security Issues in the Long Tail of DNS TXT Records. In 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW 2020), Genoa, Italy. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/eurospw51379.2020.00080

2018

  • MineSweeper: An In-depth Look into Drive-by Cryptocurrency Mining and Its Defense / Konoth, R. K., Vineti, E., Moonsamy, V., Lindorfer, M., Kruegel, C., Bos, H., & Vigna, G. (2018). MineSweeper: An In-depth Look into Drive-by Cryptocurrency Mining and Its Defense. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Toronto, Canada. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3243734.3243858
  • Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfiltration from Android Applications / Pan, E., Ren, J., Lindorfer, M., Wilson, C., & Choffnes, D. (2018). Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfiltration from Android Applications. In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (pp. 33–50). DeGruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2018-0030
  • GuardION: Practical Mitigation of DMA-Based Rowhammer Attacks on ARM / van der Veen, V., Lindorfer, M., Fratantonio, Y., Padmanabha Pillai, H., Vigna, G., Kruegel, C., Bos, H., & Razavi, K. (2018). GuardION: Practical Mitigation of DMA-Based Rowhammer Attacks on ARM. In Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (pp. 92–113). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93411-2_5
  • Bug Fixes, Improvements, ... and Privacy Leaks - A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions / Ren, J., Lindorfer, M., Dubois, D. J., Rao, A., Choffnes, D., & Vallina-Rodriguez, N. (2018). Bug Fixes, Improvements, ... and Privacy Leaks - A Longitudinal Study of PII Leaks Across Android App Versions. In Proceedings 2018 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. 2018 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, United States of America (the). Internet Society. https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2018.23143

2017

  • Obfuscation-Resilient Privacy Leak Detection for Mobile Apps Through Differential Analysis / Continella, A., Fratantonio, Y., Lindorfer, M., Puccetti, A., Zand, A., Kruegel, C., & Vigna, G. (2017). Obfuscation-Resilient Privacy Leak Detection for Mobile Apps Through Differential Analysis. In Proceedings 2017 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. NDSS 2017, San Diego, United States of America (the). Internet Society. https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2017.23465

2016

  • Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms / van der Veen, V., Fratantonio, Y., Lindorfer, M., Gruss, D., Maurice, C., Vigna, G., Bos, H., Razavi, K., & Giuffrida, C. (2016). Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’16), Vienna, Austria. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2976749.2978406
  • CuriousDroid: Automated User Interface Interaction for Android Application Analysis Sandboxes / Carter, P., Mulliner, C., Lindorfer, M., Robertson, W., & Kirda, E. (2016). CuriousDroid: Automated User Interface Interaction for Android Application Analysis Sandboxes. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security (pp. 231–249). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54970-4_13
  • ReCon: Revealing and Controlling PII Leaks in Mobile Network Traffic / Ren, J., Rao, A., Lindorfer, M., Legout, A., & Choffnes, D. (2016). ReCon: Revealing and Controlling PII Leaks in Mobile Network Traffic. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys ’16), Singapore. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2906388.2906392

2015

2014

  • Enter Sandbox: Android Sandbox Comparison / Neuner, S., van der Veen, V., Lindorfer, M., Huber, M., Georg, M., Mulazzani, M., & Weippl, E. (2014). Enter Sandbox: Android Sandbox Comparison. In Proceedings of the IEEE Mobile Security Technologies Workshop (MoST). third Workshop on Mobile Security Technologies (MoST) 2014, San Jose, United States of America (the). IEEE. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/55124
  • Skin Sheriff: A Machine Learning Solution for Detecting Explicit Images / Platzer, C., Stuetz, M., & Lindorfer, M. (2014). Skin Sheriff: A Machine Learning Solution for Detecting Explicit Images. In Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Security and forensics in communication systems - SFCS ’14. 2nd international workshop on Security and forensics in communication systems - SFCS ’14, Kyoto, Japan. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1145/2598918.2598920
    Project: SysSec (2010–2014)
  • AndRadar: Fast Discovery of Android Applications in Alternative Markets / Lindorfer, M., Volanis, S., Sisto, A., Neugschwandtner, M., Athanasopoulos, E., Maggi, F., Platzer, C., Zanero, S., & Ioannidis, S. (2014). AndRadar: Fast Discovery of Android Applications in Alternative Markets. In Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (pp. 51–71). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08509-8_4
    Project: SysSec (2010–2014)
  • ANDRUBIS -- 1,000,000 Apps Later: A View on Current Android Malware Behaviors / Lindorfer, M., Neugschwandtner, M., Weichselbaum, L., Fratantonio, Y., Veen, V. van der, & Platzer, C. (2014). ANDRUBIS -- 1,000,000 Apps Later: A View on Current Android Malware Behaviors. In 2014 Third International Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS). 2014 Third International Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS), Wroclaw, Poland. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/badgers.2014.7
    Project: SysSec (2010–2014)

2013

  • Take a Bite - Finding the Worm in the Apple / Lindorfer, M., Miller, B., Neugschwandtner, M., & Platzer, C. (2013). Take a Bite - Finding the Worm in the Apple. In International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS). The 9th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS 2013), Tainan, Taiwan (Province of China). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICICS.2013.6782846
  • A View to a Kill: WebView Exploitation / Neugschwandtner, M., Lindorfer, M., & Platzer, C. (2013). A View to a Kill: WebView Exploitation. In USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET). 6th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET 2013), Washington, DC, United States of America (the). USENIX. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/54854
  • POSTER: Cross-Platform Malware: Write Once, Infect Everywhere / Lindorfer, M., Neumayr, M., Caballero, J., & Platzer, C. (2013). POSTER: Cross-Platform Malware: Write Once, Infect Everywhere. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Washington, United States of America (the). http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/54855

2012

  • Lines of Malicious Code: Insights Into the Malicious Software Industry / Lindorfer, M., Di Federico, A., Maggi, F., Milani Comparetti, P., & Zanero, S. (2012). Lines of Malicious Code: Insights Into the Malicious Software Industry. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (pp. 349–358). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2420950.2421001

2011

  • Detecting Environment-Sensitive Malware / Lindorfer, M., Kolbitsch, C., & Milani Comparetti, P. (2011). Detecting Environment-Sensitive Malware. In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (2011). 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2011), Menlo Park, CA, United States of America (the). Springer. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/54010
    Projects: icode (2010–2012) / SysSec (2010–2014) / TRUDIE (2009–2012)
  • Detecting environment-sensitive malware / Lindorfer, M. (2011). Detecting environment-sensitive malware [Diploma Thesis, Technische Universität Wien]. reposiTUm. https://resolver.obvsg.at/urn:nbn:at:at-ubtuw:1-40430
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