Sciweavers

EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Defeating return-oriented rootkits with "Return-Less" kernels
Targeting the operating system (OS) kernels, kernel rootkits pose a formidable threat to computer systems and their users. Recent efforts have made significant progress in blocki...
Jinku Li, Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Michael C. Grace...
NDSS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
K-Tracer: A System for Extracting Kernel Malware Behavior
Kernel rootkits can provide user level-malware programs with the additional capabilities of hiding their malicious activities by altering the legitimate kernel behavior of an oper...
Andrea Lanzi, Monirul I. Sharif, Wenke Lee
CCS
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Countering kernel rootkits with lightweight hook protection
Kernel rootkits have posed serious security threats due to their stealthy manner. To hide their presence and activities, many rootkits hijack control flows by modifying control d...
Zhi Wang, Xuxian Jiang, Weidong Cui, Peng Ning
IEEEARES
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Defeating Dynamic Data Kernel Rootkit Attacks via VMM-Based Guest-Transparent Monitoring
—Targeting the operating system kernel, the core of trust in a system, kernel rootkits are able to compromise the entire system, placing it under malicious control, while eluding...
Junghwan Rhee, Ryan Riley, Dongyan Xu, Xuxian Jian...