Security and Privacy

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Sebastian Schrittwieser

Research Group Security and Privacy

Kolingasse 14-16
1090 Wien
Room : 05.24

sebastian.schrittwieser(at)univie.ac.at

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Courses

Publications

A Method for Packed Malware Detection and possible Payload Identification through Convolutional Neural Networks. / Tavolato, Paul; Schrittwieser, Sebastian; Kochberger, Patrick et al.
Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computing Research. 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

A Privacy-Preserving and Explainable Method for (Obfuscated) Malware Detection in Android Environment. / Mercaldo, Francesco; Schrittwieser, Sebastian; Kochberger, Patrick et al.
Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computing Research. 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

SaMBA: Increasing Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Complexity Through Equality Saturation. / König, Caroline; Schmidt, David; König, Philip et al.
ACM ASIACCS 2026. 2026.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

Mean Reversion and Heavy Tails: Characterizing Time-Series Data Using Ornstein?Uhlenbeck Processes and Machine Learning. / Raubitzek, Sebastian; Schrittwieser, Sebastian; Goldenits, Georg et al.
In: Sensors, Vol. 26, 14.02.2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.3390/s26041263

Average Volatility Dimensioning (AVD): dimension reduction technique for multivariate time series. / Mallinger, Kevin; Marica, Edina; Schrittwieser, Sebastian et al.
In: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Vol. 22, 12.01.2026.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1007/s41060-025-00894-w

Leaky Apps: Large-scale Analysis of Secrets Distributed in Android and iOS Apps. / Schmidt, David ; Schrittwieser, Sebastian ; Weippl, Edgar R.
CCS 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2025. p. 2459-2473.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1145/3719027.3765033

Obfuscation Detection using Matrix Complexity Features of Binary Grayscale Images. / Raubitzek, Sebastian; Schrittwieser, Sebastian ; König, Caroline et al.
In: Computers & Security, 11.11.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2025.104746

OSAGE - A Framework for Obfuscated Sample Generation and Evaluation. / Schrittwieser, Sebastian; Kochberger, Patrick; Lienhart, Florian et al.
Security and Cryptography (Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 2588). Springer, 2025.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

Classification of Obfuscation Techniques in LLVM IR: Machine Learning on Vector Representations. / Raubitzek, Sebastian; Felbauer, Patrick; Mallinger, Kevin et al.
In: Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, Vol. 7, No. 4, 125, 22.10.2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.3390/make7040125

Replay - Automatic Uncovering of Hidden Behaviors From Input Validation in Mobile Apps. / Schmidt, David ; Schrittwieser, Sebastian.
CheckMATE 2025. 2025.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

doi.org/10.1145/3733817.3765609

Projects

Assurance and Transparency in Software Protection (AsTra)

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

1/04/24 → 31/03/29

Project: Research cooperation

ASOC: Towards an Academic Security Operations Center

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

8/01/24 → 31/03/26

Project: Research cooperation

WebSecBot: Dein AI-Assistent zur sicheren Web-Applikation (WebSecBot)

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

1/01/24 → 30/06/25

Project: Research funding

Sensibilisierung für Datentransparenz in Social Media (DaTra)

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

1/12/22 → 31/01/24

Project: Research funding

Integratives Konzept zur Datenfusionierung und Optimierung von Waldbrand-Monitoringprozessen

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

1/07/22 → 28/02/25

Project: Research cooperation

Social Engineering - digitale Manipulationen durch Cyberkriminelle

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

1/07/21 → 30/04/22

Project: Contract research

Phishing mit Psychologie besiegen!

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

1/12/20 → 30/11/21

Project: Research funding

EMRESS: Evaluierungsmodelle für Resilience und Stealth von Softwares

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

1/10/20 → 28/02/23

Project: Research funding

INODES: Inferenz optimaler Cyber-Verteidigungsstrategien

Schrittwieser, S. (Project Lead)

1/10/20 → 31/03/25

Project: Research funding

SBA Research Kooperation

Weippl, E. (Project Lead), Schrittwieser, S. (Scientific Project Staff), Limbeck-Lilienau, B. (Project Staff), König, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Schatten, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Schedlbauer, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Nowak, V. (Scientific Project Staff), Kusen, E. (Scientific Project Staff) & Seidl, E. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/07/20 → 31/03/25

Project: Research funding