About Me

I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Institute for Network Sciences and Cyberspace at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Haixin Duan in the Network and Information Security Lab (NISL).
I received my Bachelor degree in Commnication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Communications (BUPT) in 2018.
Currently, my research studies network security, with a particular interest in data-driven security and AI security.
Reserch Interests
Network Security; Data Driven Security; AI Security
Contact Me
- FIT 4-206, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R.China
- liumx [AT] mails [DOT] tsinghua.ehu.cn
Publications
Conference
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Exploring the Characteristics and Security Risks of Emerging Emoji Domain Names, [ESORICS'22]
Mingxuan Liu
, Yiming Zhang, Baojun Liu, Haixin Duan
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Encrypted Malware Traffic Detection via Graph-based Network Analysis, [RAID'22]
Zhuoqun Fu,Mingxuan Liu
, Yue Qin, Jia Zhang, Yuan Zou, Qilei Yin, Qi Li, Haixin Duan
(Pre-print Version) -
Ethics in Security Research: Visions, Reality, and Paths Forward, [EthiCS'22]
Yiming Zhang,Mingxuan Liu
, Mingming Zhang, Chaoyi Lu, Haixin Duan -
ValCAT: Generating Variable-Length Contextualized Adversarial Transformations using Encoder-Decode, [NAACL'22]
Chuyun Deng,Mingxuan Liu
, Yue Qin, Jia Zhang, Haixin Duan, Donghong Sun -
Detecting and Characterizing SMS Spearphising Attacks, [ACSAC'21]
Mingxuan Liu
, Yiming Zhang, Baojun Liu, Zhou Li, Haixin Duan, Donghong Sun
(Acceptance rate: 24.5%) -
Argot: Generating Adversarial Readable Chinese Texts, [IJCAI'20]
*Zihan Zhang, *Mingxuan Liu
, Chao Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Zhou Li, Qi Li, Haixin Duan and Donghong Sun
(* are co-first authors.)
(Acceptance rate: 12.6%) -
Lies in the Air: Characterizing Fake-base-station Spam Ecosystem in China, [ACM CCS'20]
Yiming Zhang, Baojun Liu, Chaoyi Lu, Zhou Li, Haixin Duan, Shuang Hao,Mingxuan Liu
, Ying Liu, Dong Wang and Qiang Li
Released Dataset
(Acceptance rate: 16.9%) -
Casino Royale: A Deep Exploration of Illegal Online Gambling, [ACSAC'19]
Hao Yang, Kun Du, Yubao Zhang, Shuang Hao, Zhou Li,Mingxuan Liu
, Haining Wang, Haixin Duan, Yazhou Shi, Xiaodong Su, Guang Liu and Zhifeng Geng
(Acceptance rate: 22.6%) -
TL;DR Hazard: A Comprehensive Study of Levelsquatting Scams, [SecureComm'19]
Kun Du, Hao Yang, Zhou Li, Haixin Duan, Shuang Hao, Baojun Liu, Yuxiao Ye,Mingxuan Liu
, Xiaodong Su, Guang Liu, Zhifeng Geng, Zaifeng Zhang and Jinjin Liang
(Acceptance rate: 37.6%)
Jounal
- Automatic Generation of Adversarial Readable Chinese Texts, [TDSC'22]
Mingxuan Liu
, Zihan Zhang, Chao Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Zhou Li, Qi Li, Haixin Duan and Donghong Sun
Projects (in English)
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Automatic Adversarial Generation Project, [Huawei co.]
Research on attack and defese technologies on adversarial texts -
Detection of Underground Website based on Natrual Langurage Processing (NLP), [Tsinghua]
Completion of the website detection section based on semantic similarity comparison;
This detection system has been deployed in Tsinghua Campus Network and Qi’anxin, and has been running continuously for more than 500 days, detecting thousands of blackmail pages per day -
Detection of Malicious Traffic based on Machine Learning Technology, [Huawei co.]
Completion of detection based on features extracted from HTTP traffic;
Resulted in a patent and a detection model that can be run at the gateway -
Detection of Malicious Encrypted Traffic, [Qi’anxin co.]
Completion of detection system based on TLS flow features;
Resulted in a patent (pending) and a detection system running at the gateway
Projects (in Chinese)
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智能文本对抗项目, [华为]
完成对抗文本生成的攻击和防御技术 -
基于自然语言处理的互联网黑灰产网站检测, [清华]
完成基于语义相似度对比的页面检测部分;
该检测系统已部署在清华校园网、奇安信,持续运行了 500 多天,每天可检出千量级的黑产页面 -
基于机器学习的网络恶意流量检测, [华为]
完成基于特征提取的 HTTP 恶意流量检测部分;
该部分已形成一篇专利和一个可以运行在现网中的检测模型 -
加密流量检测, [奇安信]
完成基于 TLS 流特征的加密流量检测部分;
该部分已提交一篇专利(审理中)和一个运行在现网中的检测模型
Services
External Reviewer
- NDSS'22, Euro S&P'22, Esorics'21, siMLA'21