I am Sourena — originally from Iran, Living in France.
Interested in security, networking, and protocol-level details.
This site is mainly a personal dump of notes, experiments, and things worth keeping track of.
Here is my Google scholar
and LinkedIn
Some projects
- URLAbuse - URL blacklist (not blocklist)
- BulkDNS - Fast DNS RR scanner in C
- sdns - Low-level DNS library, packet parser
- libctd - Public suffix list parser + a command-line tool
- ciniparser - .ini config file parser library in C
- cipv4 - Python-like IPv4 manipulation library in C
Personal notes
Papers and publications
- (2018) - Depth-Map Compression using Directional Wavelets Transform.
- (2020) - A practical approach for taking down avalanche botnets under real-world constraints
- (2020) - Comar: Classification of compromised versus maliciously registered domains
- (2020) - From Defensive Registration to Subdomain Protection: Evaluation of Email Anti-Spoofing Schemes for High-Profile Domains.
- (2020) - Feasibility of large-scale vulnerability notifications after gdpr
- (2020) - Are you human? resilience of phishing detection to evasion techniques based on human verification
- (2021) - Adoption of email anti-spoofing schemes: a large scale analysis
- (2022) - Study on Domain Name System (DNS) abuse - Technical report
- (2022) - NetBeacon Measurement and Analytics Platform (MAP): Methodology
- (2023) - Operational domain name classification: from automatic ground truth generation to adaptation to missing values
- (2023) - Building a resilient domain whitelist to enhance phishing blacklist accuracy
- (2025) - Short Path to Phishing: Identifying Misused URL Shortening Services in the Wild
- (2025) - Exposing the Roots of DNS Abuse: A Data-Driven Analysis of Key Factors Behind Phishing Domain Registrations
- (2025) - INFERMAL: Inferential analysis of maliciously registered domains