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ASPLOS
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Temporal search: detecting hidden malware timebombs with virtual machines
Worms, viruses, and other malware can be ticking bombs counting down to a specific time, when they might, for example, delete files or download new instructions from a public we...
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Gary Wassermann, Daniela A. ...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling malware propagation in Gnutella type peer-to-peer networks
A key emerging and popular communication paradigm, primarily employed for information dissemination, is peer-to-peer (P2P) networking. In this paper, we model the spread of malwar...
Krishna K. Ramachandran, Biplab Sikdar
IPCCC
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 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
ACSC
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
SPiKE: engineering malware analysis tools using unobtrusive binary-instrumentation
Malware — a generic term that encompasses viruses, trojans, spywares and other intrusive code — is widespread today. Malware analysis is a multi-step process providing insight...
Amit Vasudevan, Ramesh Yerraballi
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Back to the Future: A Framework for Automatic Malware Removal and System Repair
Malware is software with malicious intent. Besides viruses and worms, spyware, adware, and other newer forms of malware have recently emerged as widely-spread threats to system se...
Francis Hsu, Hao Chen, Thomas Ristenpart, Jason Li...
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
PolyUnpack: Automating the Hidden-Code Extraction of Unpack-Executing Malware
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...
ISW
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Detecting System Emulators
Malware analysis is the process of determining the behavior and purpose of a given malware sample (such as a virus, worm, or Trojan horse). This process is a necessary step to be a...
Thomas Raffetseder, Christopher Krügel, Engin...
CCS
2007
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Panorama: capturing system-wide information flow for malware detection and analysis
Malicious programs spy on users’ behavior and compromise their privacy. Even software from reputable vendors, such as Google Desktop and Sony DRM media player, may perform undes...
Heng Yin, Dawn Xiaodong Song, Manuel Egele, Christ...
AIMS
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Malware Models for Network and Service Management
Different kinds of malware like the botnets and the worms are a main threat on Internet for the current and future. Their efficiency to control systems is proved and we are invest...
Jérôme François, Radu State, O...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Modeling Malware Propagation in Networks of Smart Cell Phones with Spatial Dynamics
Abstract— Recent outbreaks of virus and worm attacks targeted at cell phones have have bought to the forefront the seriousness of the security threat to this increasingly popular...
Krishna K. Ramachandran, Biplab Sikdar