Publications

A collection of my research work.

# Co-first author* Corresponding author

Hey, Your Secrets Leaked! Detecting and Characterizing Secret Leakage in the Wild

Jiawei Zhou#, Zidong Zhang#, Lingyun Ying*, Huajun Chai, Jiuxin Cao*, Haixin Duan

IEEE S&P 2025 | The 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
CCF-ACore A*BIG4TOP

Introduces KEYSENTINEL for detecting structured and unstructured secrets, plus a large-scale study of leakage across GitHub, PyPI, and WeChat.

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MiniBLE: Exploring Insecure BLE API Usages in Mini-Programs

Zidong Zhang, Jianqi Du, Wenrui Diao*, Jianliang Wu*

SaTS 2024 | The 2nd ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Superapps

Studies insecure BLE pairing in IoT-oriented mini-programs and introduces MiniBLE, a static taint analysis tool evaluated on 41,276 real-world samples.

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MiniCAT: Understanding and Detecting Cross-Page Request Forgery Vulnerabilities in Mini-Programs

Zidong Zhang, Qinsheng Hou, Lingyun Ying*, Wenrui Diao*, Yacong Gu, Rui Li, Shanqing Guo, Haixin Duan

ACM CCS 2024 | The 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
CCF-ACore A*BIG4TOP

Identifies MiniCPRF in mini-programs and presents MiniCAT, which found 13,349 potentially vulnerable samples among 41,726 analyzable mini-programs.

Living in the Past: Analyzing BLE IoT Devices Based on Mobile Companion Apps in Old Versions

Jianqi Du, Zidong Zhang, Fenghao Xu*, Wenrui Diao*

MSN 2023 | The 19th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking
CCF-C

Shows that old BLE companion apps can still expose device vulnerabilities, since many IoT devices cannot receive meaningful firmware fixes.

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Identifying the BLE Misconfigurations of IoT Devices through Companion Mobile Apps

Jianqi Du, Fenghao Xu*, Chennan Zhang, Zidong Zhang, Xiaoyin Liu, Pengcheng Ren, Wenrui Diao*, Shanqing Guo, Kehuan Zhang

IEEE SECON 2022 | The 19th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking
CCF-B

Detects BLE misconfigurations through companion app analysis and applies BSC-Checker to 4,589 apps across multiple markets.

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