Publications

2026

• SpecTrum: Specification-Guided Differential Fuzzing for Ethereum Consensus Clients
  Seokhun Jeong, Gyeongmin Dan, Sukyoung Ryu, Sungjae Hwang
  41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2026)
• An Empirical Study and Benchmark of Kubernetes Misconfiguration Scanners
  Haeun Eom, Bohyun Suk, Sungjae Hwang
  The ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2026)
• Forensic Analysis of Video Data Deletion and Recovery in Honeywell Surveillance File System
  Jinhee Yoon, Sungjae Hwang
  26th Annual Digital Forensics Research Conference USA (DFRWS USA 2026)
• Unveiling the Underground Phishing Ecosystem: A 12-Year Longitudinal Study of Deep and Dark Web Forums
  Dohee Kim, Zhao Hui, Doowon Kim and Sungjae Hwang
  The ACM Web Conference (WWW 2026)
• OCPPuzz: Specification-driven Fuzzing of Charging Station Management Systems with Large Language Model
  Jongchan Hong, Jaewon Kim, Sungjae Hwang
  Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2026)
• A Deep Dive into Function Inlining and its Security Implications for ML-based Binary Analysis
  Omar Abusabha, Jiyong Uhm, Tamer Abuhmed, and Hyungjoon Koo
  In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2026)
• From Rules to LLM-Enhanced Templates: A Hybrid ALPG Code Generation System
  Sanghyeok Park, Sungjae Hwang, Simon S. Woo
  48th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE SEIP 2026)
• Context-Aware Risk Assessment Metric for Kubernetes Admission Webhook Misconfigurations
  Seohyun Ahn, Sungjae Hwang
  Journal of The Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology (KIISC 2026)
• A Measurement Study of Scam Activities on NFD Discord
  Junhyeok Yoo, Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Summer (CISC-S 2026)

2025

• Challenges in Firmware Rehosting Techniques
  Haeun Eom, Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Summer (CISC-S 2025)
• Application-Based Anti-Forensic Techniques and their Artifacts in Android Environments
  Youngseok Kim, Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Summer (CISC-S 2025)
• Building an Unstructured PII Detection Dataset via LLM-Based Template Synthesis
  Mingyu Kim, Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Summer (CISC-S 2025)

2024

• A Survey of Software Supply Chain Security
  Youngseok Kim, Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Winter (CISC-W 2024)
• A Survey on Darkweb Research : Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions
  Dohee Kim, Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Winter (CISC-W 2024)
• A Survey on Metrics in Machine Unlearning
  Junehyung Kim, Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Winter (CISC-W 2024)
• All You Need is Attention: Lightweight Attention-based Data Augmentation for Text Classification
  Junehyung Kim, Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-Findings 2024)
• Firmware Re-hosting for Dynamic Analysis
  Sungjae Hwang
  정보과학회지 특집원고, May 2024
• An Empirical Study of JVMs’ Behaviors on Erroneous JNI Interoperations
  Sungjae Hwang, Sungho Lee, and Sukyoung Ryu
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE 2024)
• R2I: A Relative Readability Metric for Decompiled Code
  Haeun Eom, Dohee Kim, Sori Lim, Hyungjoon Koo, Sungjae Hwang
  ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024)

2023

• Challenges in Firmware Re-Hosting for Satellite Systems
  Sungjae Hwang, and Haeun Eom
  International Workshop on Anomaly and Novelty detection in Satellite and Drones systems (ANSD 2023)
• RT-Blockchain:Achieving Time-Predictable Transactions
  Seunghoon Lee, Sukmin Kang, Seungyeon Cho, Hyunwoo Koo, Sungjae Hwang and Jinkyu Lee
  44th IEEE Real-Time System Symposium (RTSS 2023)
• EtherDiffer: Differential Testing on RPC Services of Ethereum Nodes
  Shinhae Kim, and Sungjae Hwang
  30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2023)
• LSAT: Logic-based Security Analysis Tool for Security Policies
  GumJin Lee, Sungjae Hwang
  한국컴퓨터종합학술대회 (KCC 2023)
• 자동차 보안의 현황과 과제
  권민희, 김도희, 황성재
  정보과학회지 특집원고, June 2023

2022

• A Study of Rug Pulls in Real World DeFi Projects
  Youngseop Shin, and Sungjae Hwang
  Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Summer (CISC-W 2022)
• Empirical Study of Activity Injection Attacks in Android Malware
  Youngseok Kim, and Sungjae Hwang
  Annual Conference of KIPS (ACK 2022). Best Paper Award.

Before 2021

• JUSTGen: Effective Test Generation for Unspecified JNI Behaviors on JVMs
  Sungjae Hwang, Sungho Lee, Jihoon Kim, and Sukyoung Ryu — 43rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021)
• Towards Secure Interoperation in Android: A study of interoperation vulnerabilities in Android
  Sungjae Hwang — Ph.D Thesis, KAIST, 2021
• Gap between Theory and Practice : An Empirical Study of Security Patches in Solidity
  Sungjae Hwang, and Sukyoung Ryu — 42nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020)
• All about Activity Injection: Threats, Semantics, Detection, and Defense
  Sungjae Hwang, Sungho Lee, and Sukyoung Ryu — Software Practice and Experience (SPE 2020)
• All about Activity Injection: Threats, Semantics, and Detection
  Sungho Lee, Sungjae Hwang, and Sukyoung Ryu — 32st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017)
• Bittersweet ADB: Attacks and Defenses
  Sungjae Hwang, Sungho Lee, Yongdae Kim, and Sukyoung Ryu — ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2015)
• Update Vulnerability in Android
  Sungjae Hwang — M.S. Thesis, KAIST, 2014