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IPCCC
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Optimising malware
In recent years, malicious software (malware) has become one of the most insidious threats in computer security. However, this is arguably not the result of increased sophisticati...
José M. Fernandez, Pierre-Marc Bureau
SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mining specifications of malicious behavior
Malware detectors require a specification of malicious behavior. Typically, these specifications are manually constructed by investigating known malware. We present an automatic t...
Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha, Christopher Krue...
ISSTA
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Testing malware detectors
In today’s interconnected world, malware, such as worms and viruses, can cause havoc. A malware detector (commonly known as virus scanner) attempts to identify malware. In spite...
Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha
DIMVA
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Embedded Malware Detection Using Markov n-Grams
Embedded malware is a recently discovered security threat that allows malcode to be hidden inside a benign file. It has been shown that embedded malware is not detected by commerci...
M. Zubair Shafiq, Syed Ali Khayam, Muddassar Faroo...
SAC
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Botzilla: detecting the "phoning home" of malicious software
Hosts infected with malicious software, so called malware, are ubiquitous in today’s computer networks. The means whereby malware can infiltrate a network are manifold and rang...
Konrad Rieck, Guido Schwenk, Tobias Limmer, Thorst...