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...
Malicious software in form of Internet worms, computer viruses, and Trojan horses poses a major threat to the security of networked systems. The diversity and amount of its variant...
Konrad Rieck, Thorsten Holz, Carsten Willems, Patr...
In this paper, we leverage the concepts of formal grammar and genetic operators to evolve malware. As a case study, we take COM infectors and design their formal grammar with produ...
Sadia Noreen, Shafaq Murtaza, M. Zubair Shafiq, Mu...
Instant messaging (IM) has been one of most frequently used malware attack vectors due to its popularity. Distinct from other malware, it is straightforward for IM malware to fin...
Malware categorization is an important problem in malware analysis and has attracted a lot of attention of computer security researchers and anti-malware industry recently. Today...