Removing semantic NOP’s from Malware
A common obfuscation technique used by malware is by randomly inserting a sequence of instructions that have no other effect on the functionality of the program. This technique is additionally used in...
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I haven’t blogged for a few months. I’ve been busy finishing a prototype malware classification system based on flowgraph similarity. That has resulted in submitting a paper to the 8th Australasian...
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I received notification tonight that I have been accepted to present at the AusPDC conference. I’ll post an abstract when the conference website publishes it online.
View ArticleAn interesting paper on flowgraph classification
I thought I would write a small summary on an interesting paper that appeared at ACM CCS. http://www.ecsl.cs.sunysb.edu/tr/TR246.pdf is a link to the paper ‘Large-Scale Malware Indexing Using...
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I will be presenting my research on a real-time flowgraph based malware classification system at the IEEE Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) conference in Perth, Australia, April...
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http://www.acsw2010.scitech.qut.edu.au/acsw2010/Program_schedules/Abstracts.pdf Classification of Malware Using Structured Control Flow Malware is a pervasive problem in distributed computer and...
View ArticleClassification of Malware Using Structured Control Flow
I am making available my paper from the AusPDC conference http://sites.google.com/site/silviocesare/academicpublications. Any feedback or comments would be greatly appreciated.
View ArticleNew Focus to Blog
It’s been a long time since I last posted and actively maintained this blog. The reason for not posting is primarily because I have been trying to publish my research while at University. Dual...
View ArticleAntivirus IPC and Middleware
In this post, I’ll discuss some of the design issues, approaches and solutions I’ve encountered and taken designing and implementing my prototype Antivirus scanner. Specifically, this post will look at...
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