Malware authors have recently begun using emulation technology to obfuscate their code. They convert native malware binaries into bytecode programs written in a randomly generated...
Monirul I. Sharif, Andrea Lanzi, Jonathon T. Giffi...
Software security assurance and malware (trojans, worms, and viruses, etc.) detection are important topics of information security. Software obfuscation, a general technique that ...
Andrew H. Sung, Jianyun Xu, Patrick Chavez, Sriniv...
Detecting the presence of buffer overflow attacks in network messages has been a major focus. Only knowing whether a message contains an attack, however, is not always enough to m...
Modern malware often hide the malicious portion of their program code by making it appear as data at compiletime and transforming it back into executable code at runtime. This obf...
Paul Royal, Mitch Halpin, David Dagon, Robert Edmo...
Software protection is an area of active research in which a variety of techniques have been developed to address the issue. Examples of such techniques include code obfuscation, s...