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WORM
2003
14 years 28 days ago
Worm anatomy and model
We present a general framework for reasoning about network worms and analyzing the potency of worms within a specific network. First, we present a discussion of the life cycle of ...
Dan Ellis
WORM
2003
14 years 28 days ago
Access for sale: a new class of worm
The damage inflicted by viruses and worms has been limited because the payloads that are most lucrative to malware authors have also posed the greatest risks to them. The problem...
Stuart E. Schechter, Michael D. Smith
WORM
2003
14 years 28 days ago
A taxonomy of computer worms
Nicholas Weaver, Vern Paxson, Stuart Staniford, Ro...
WORM
2003
14 years 28 days ago
Detection of injected, dynamically generated, and obfuscated malicious code
This paper presents DOME, a host-based technique for detecting several general classes of malicious code in software executables. DOME uses static analysis to identify the locatio...
Jesse C. Rabek, Roger I. Khazan, Scott M. Lewandow...
WORM
2003
14 years 28 days ago
Experiences with worm propagation simulations
Fast Internet worms are a relatively new threat to Internet infrastructure and hosts. We discuss motivation and possibilities to study the behaviour of such worms and degrees of f...
Arno Wagner, Thomas Dübendorfer, Bernhard Pla...
WORM
2004
14 years 28 days ago
ACT: attachment chain tracing scheme for email virus detection and control
Modern society is highly dependent on the smooth and safe flow of information over communication and computer networks. Computer viruses and worms pose serious threats to the soci...
Jintao Xiong
WORM
2004
14 years 28 days ago
A study of mass-mailing worms
Mass-mailing worms have made a significant impact on the Internet. These worms consume valuable network resources and can also be used as a vehicle for DDoS attacks. In this paper...
Cynthia Wong, Stan Bielski, Jonathan M. McCune, Ch...
WORM
2004
14 years 28 days ago
Preliminary results using scale-down to explore worm dynamics
A major challenge when attempting to analyze and model large-scale Internet phenomena such as the dynamics of global worm propagation is finding ate abstractions that allow us to ...
Nicholas Weaver, Ihab Hamadeh, George Kesidis, Ver...
WORM
2004
14 years 28 days ago
The top speed of flash worms
Flash worms follow a precomputed spread tree using prior knowledge of all systems vulnerable to the worm's exploit. In previous work we suggested that a flash worm could satu...
Stuart Staniford, David Moore, Vern Paxson, Nichol...
WORM
2004
14 years 28 days ago
A hybrid quarantine defense
We study the strengths, weaknesses, and potential synergies of two complementary worm quarantine defense strategies under various worm attack profiles. We observe their abilities ...
Phillip A. Porras, Linda Briesemeister, Keith Skin...