Bio
Aleksandr Nahapetyan is a Ph.D. student co-advised by Dr. Bradley Reaves and Dr. Alexandros Kapravelos. He is interested in reverse engineering, threat intelligence, online phishing and spam, and web security. He is working on studying the phishing ecosystem from different vantage points, studying the phenomena as a group of operations instead of individual cases; in his free time, he competes as part of NC State’s CTF team HackPack.
Publications
- Sathvik Prasad, Aleksandr Nahapetyan, and Bradley Reaves, Characterizing Robocalls with Multiple Vantage Points, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), May 2025.
- Shaown Sarker, Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Anupam Das, and Alexandros Kapravelos, JSHint: Revealing API Usage to Improve Detection of Malicious JavaScript, in Proceedings of the 27th Information Security Conference (ISC), Oct. 2024.
- Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Sathvik Prasad, Kevin Childs, Adam Oest, Yeganeh Ladwig, Alexandros Kapravelos, and Brad Reaves, On SMS Phishing Tactics and Infrastructure, in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2024.
- Siddharth Muralee, Igibek Koishybayev, Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Greg Tystahl, Brad Reaves, Antonio Bianchi, William Enck, Alexandros Kapravelos, and Aravind Machiry, ARGUS: A Framework for Staged Static Taint Analysis of GitHub Workflows and Actions, in Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2023.
- Igibek Koishybayev, Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Raima Zachariah, Siddharth Muralee, Brad Reaves, Alexandros Kapravelos, and Aravind Machiry, Characterizing the Security of Github CI Workflows, in Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2022.