Wang Pengfei

Wang Pengfei

Associate Professor of Computer Security

National University of Defense Technology

Biography

Wang Pengfei is an associate professor of computer security at the Department of Network and Cyber Security, National University of Defense Technology. His research interests include system security, program analysis, vulnerability detection, and fuzzing test. He is looking for self-motivated students for collaborations on computer security research.

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Interests
  • System Security
  • Program Analysis
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Fuzzing Test.
Education

  • PhD in Computer Science and Technology, 2018

    National University of Defense Technology

  • Visiting Scholar, 2016

    University College London

Recent News

[2024-6] Our paper “Efficiently Rebuilding Coverage in Hardware-Assisted Greybox Fuzzing” has been accepted by RAID 2024.

[2024-4] Our paper “HyperGo: Probability-based directed hybrid fuzzing” has been accepted by Computer & Security.

[2024-2] Our paper “ARMOR: Protecting Software Against Hardware Tracing Techniques” has been accepted by IEEE TIFS.

[2024-1] Our paper “INSTILLER: Towards Efficient and Realistic RTL Fuzzing” has been accepted by IEEE TCAD.

[2023-11] Our paper “The Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives of Directed Greybox Fuzzing” has been accepted by STVR.

[2023-09] Our paper “DeepGo: Predictive Directed Greybox Fuzzing” has been accepted by NDSS 2024.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Service
Reviewer
Jan 2018 – Present
  • ACM TOSEM 2024
  • IEEE TIFS 2023
  • Computer & Security 2022
  • Journal of Supercomputing 2024
  • Journal of Neurocomputing 2024
  • Scientific Report 2024
  • Software Quality Journal 2018/2021

Publications

Tai Yue, Yibo Jin, Fengwei Zhang, Zhenyu Ning, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu (2024). Efficiently Rebuilding Coverage in Hardware-Assisted Greybox Fuzzing. RAID 2024.

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Peihong Lin, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Wei Xie, Kai Lu, Gen Zhang (2024). HyperGo: Probability-based directed hybrid fuzzing. COSE.

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Tai Yue, Fengwei Zhang, Zhenyu Ning, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu, Lei Zhou (2024). ARMOR: Protecting Software Against Hardware Tracing Techniques. IEEE TIFS.

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Gen Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Tai Yue, Danjun Liu, Yubei Guo, Kai Lu (2024). Instiller: Towards Efficient and Realistic RTL Fuzzing. IEEE TCAD.

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Peihong Lin, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Wei Xie, Gen Zhang, Kai Lu (2023). DeepGo: Predictive Directed Greybox Fuzzing. NDSS 2024.

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Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Tai Yue, Peihong Lin, Yingying Liu, Kai Lu (2023). The progress, challenges, and perspectives of directed greybox fuzzing. STVR.

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Zhenhao Luo, Pengfei Wang, Baosheng Wang, Yong Tang, Wei Xie, Xu Zhou, Dangjun Liu, Kai Lu (2022). VulHawk: Cross-architecture Vulnerability Detection with Entropy-based Binary Code Search. NDSS 2023.

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Danjun Liu, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Wei Xie, Gen Zhang, Zhenhao Luo, Tai Yue, Baosheng Wang (2022). From Release to Rebirth: Exploiting Thanos Objects in Linux Kernel. IEEE TIFS.

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Xu Zhou, Pengfei Wang, Chenyifan Liu, Tai Yue, Yingying Liu, Congxi Song, Kai Lu, Qidi Yin, Xu Han (2022). UltraFuzz: Towards Resource-saving in Distributed Fuzzing. IEEE TSE.

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Gen Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Tai Yue, Xiangdong Kong, Shan Huang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu (2022). MobFuzz: Adaptive Multi-objective Optimization in Gray-box Fuzzing. NDSS 2022.

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Gen Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Tai Yue, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu (2021). MEBS: Uncovering Memory Life-Cycle Bugs in Operating System Kernels. JCST.

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Wei Xie, Chao Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Zhenhua Wang, Qiang Yang (2021). ARGUS: Assessing Unpatched Vulnerable Devices on the Internet via Efficient Firmware Recognition. AsiaCCS 2021.

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Xiangdong Kong, Yong Tang, Pengfei Wang, Shuning Wei, Tai Yue (2021). HashMTI: Scalable Mutation-based Taint Inference with Hash Records. SANER 2021.

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Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu (2020). Sabotaging the System Boundary: A Study of the Inter-boundary Vulnerability. JISA.

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Tai Yue, Pengfei Wang, Yong Tang, Enze Wang, Bo Yu, Kai Lu, Xu Zhou (2020). EcoFuzz: Adaptive Energy-Saving Greybox Fuzzing as a Variant of the Adversarial Multi-Armed Bandit. USENIX Security ‘20.

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Bo Yu, Pengfei Wang, Tai Yue, Yong Tang (2019). Poster: Fuzzing IoT Firmware via Multi-stage Message Generation. CCS ‘19.

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Pengfei Wang, Jens Krinke, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu (2019). AVPredictor: Comprehensive Prediction and Detection of Atomicity Violations. CCPE.

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Pengfei Wang, Kai Lu, Gen Li, Xu Zhou (2019). DFTracker: Detecting Double-Fetch Bugs by Multi-Taints Parallel Tracking. FCS.

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Yingqi Luo, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou and Kai Lu (2018). DFTinker: Detecting and Fixing Double-fetch Bugs in an Automated Way. WASA 2018.

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Kai Lu, Pengfei Wang, Gen Li, Xu Zhou (2018). Untrusted Hardware Causes Double-fetch Problems in the I/O Memory. JCST.

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Pengfei Wang, Kai Lu, Gen Li, Xu Zhou (2018). A Survey of the Double-Fetch Vulnerabilities. CCPE.

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Pengfei Wang, Jens Krinke, Kai Lu, Gen Li, Steve Dodier-Lazaro (2017). How Double-Fetch Situations turn into Double-Fetch Vulnerabilities: A Study of Double Fetches in the Linux Kernel. USENIX Security ‘17.

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