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Hangtian Liu
dblp:385/6824
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4ranked-venue papers
2as first author
4since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 4 · 2 first-author · 4 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
4 papers |
Systems and software security · 82% Cyber-physical and IoT security · 18% | |
| Computer networks
2 papers |
Internet of things and sensor networks · 100% |
Topics — the 10 heaviest of 11, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Systems and software security
vulnerability discovery |
2.5 | 3 | 2026 | FirmAgent: Leveraging Fuzzing to Assist LLM Agents with IoT Firmware Vulnerability Discovery · NDSS 2026 Labrador: Response Guided Directed Fuzzing for Black-box IoT Devices · SP 2024 Faster and Better: Detecting Vulnerabilities in Linux-based IoT Firmware with Optimized Reaching Definition Analysis · NDSS 2024 |
Systems and software security › vulnerability discovery
firmware vulnerability analysis |
1.8 | 2 | 2026 | FirmAgent: Leveraging Fuzzing to Assist LLM Agents with IoT Firmware Vulnerability Discovery · NDSS 2026 Faster and Better: Detecting Vulnerabilities in Linux-based IoT Firmware with Optimized Reaching Definition Analysis · NDSS 2024 |
Systems and software security › vulnerability discovery
fuzzing |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | FirmAgent: Leveraging Fuzzing to Assist LLM Agents with IoT Firmware Vulnerability Discovery · NDSS 2026 |
Systems and software security › vulnerability discovery › fuzzing
black-box fuzzing |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Labrador: Response Guided Directed Fuzzing for Black-box IoT Devices · SP 2024 |
Systems and software security › vulnerability discovery › fuzzing
directed fuzzing |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Labrador: Response Guided Directed Fuzzing for Black-box IoT Devices · SP 2024 |
Systems and software security › vulnerability discovery › fuzzing
firmware fuzzing |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Labrador: Response Guided Directed Fuzzing for Black-box IoT Devices · SP 2024 |
Cyber-physical and IoT security
iot device security |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Labrador: Response Guided Directed Fuzzing for Black-box IoT Devices · SP 2024 |
Internet of things and sensor networks › iot security
iot device security |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | EAGLEYE: Exposing Hidden Web Interfaces in IoT Devices via Routing Analysis · NDSS 2025 |
Internet of things and sensor networks
iot devices |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Labrador: Response Guided Directed Fuzzing for Black-box IoT Devices · SP 2024 |
Program analysis › data flow analysis
reaching definitions |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Faster and Better: Detecting Vulnerabilities in Linux-based IoT Firmware with Optimized Reaching Definition Analysis · NDSS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
routing analysis · 1.7testcase mutation · 1.5static analysis · 1.5response-guided fuzzing · 1.5distance estimation · 1.5large language model agent · 1.0fuzzing · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | FirmAgent: Leveraging Fuzzing to Assist LLM Agents with IoT Firmware Vulnerability Discovery
Jiangan Ji, Chao Zhang 0008, Shuitao Gan, Lin Jian, Hangtian Liu, Tieming Liu, Zhipeng Jia |
NDSS | 5 |
| 2025 | EAGLEYE: Exposing Hidden Web Interfaces in IoT Devices via Routing Analysis
Hangtian Liu, Shuitao Gan, Chao Zhang 0008, Zicong Gao, Yishun Zeng, Zhiyuan Jiang |
NDSS | 1 |
| 2024 | Faster and Better: Detecting Vulnerabilities in Linux-based IoT Firmware with Optimized Reaching Definition Analysis
Zicong Gao, Chao Zhang 0008, Hangtian Liu, Wenhou Sun, Zhizhuo Tang, Liehui Jiang, Jianjun Chen 0005 |
NDSS | 3 |
| 2024 | Labrador: Response Guided Directed Fuzzing for Black-box IoT DevicesabstractFuzzing is a popular solution to finding vulnerabilities in software including IoT firmware. However, due to the challenges of emulating or rehosting firmware, some IoT devices (e.g., enterprise-level devices) can only be fuzzed in a black-box manner, which makes fuzzers blind and inefficient due to missing feedbacks (e.g., code coverage or distance). In this paper, we present a novel response guided directed fuzzing solution Labrador, able to test black-box IoT devices efficiently. Specifically, we leverage the network response to infer the execution trace of firmware and deduce the code coverage of testing. Second, we leverage the test case (i.e., request) and its response to estimate the distance to the target sensitive code (i.e., sink). Lastly, we further leverage the distance to guide test case mutation, which efficiently drives directed fuzzing toward candidate vulnerable code. We have implemented a prototype of Labrador and evaluated it on 14 different enterprise-level IoT devices. Results showed that Labrador significantly outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) solutions. It finds 44X more vulnerabilities than SNIPUZZ, BOOFUZZ and FIRM-AFL and 8.57X more vulnerabilities than SaTC. In total, it discovered 79 unknown vulnerabilities, of which 61 were assigned with CVEs. Hangtian Liu, Shuitao Gan, Chao Zhang 0008, Zicong Gao, Xiangzhi Wang, Guangming Gao |
SP | 1 |