A malware detector is a system that attempts to determine whether a program has malicious
intent. In order to evade detection, malware writers (hackers) frequently use obfuscation to …

Malicious code is an increasingly important problem that threatens the security of computer
systems. The traditional line of defense against malware is composed of malware detectors …

Fueled by an emerging underground economy, malware authors are exploiting
vulnerabilities at an alarming rate. To make matters worse, obfuscation tools are commonly …

Malware writers and detectors have been running an endless battle. Self-defense is the
weapon most malware writers prepare against malware detectors. Malware writers have …

To handle the growing flood of malware, security vendors and analysts rely on tools that
automatically identify and analyze malicious code. Current systems for automated malware …

Modern malware often hide the malicious portion of their program code by making it appear
as data at compile-time and transforming it back into executable code at runtime. This …

Malware detection is a crucial aspect of software security. Current malware detectors work
by checking for signatures, which attempt to capture the syntactic characteristics of the …

Detection of malicious software (malware) by the use of static signatures is often criticized for
being overly simplistic. Available methods of obfuscating code (so-called metamorphic …

One of the recent trends adopted by malware authors is to use packers or software tools that
instigate code obfuscation in order to evade detection by antivirus scanners. With evasion …

Malicious code (or Malware) is defined as software that fulfills the deliberately harmful intent
of an attacker. Malware analysis is the process of determining the behavior and purpose of a …