NDLI: On the feasibility of online malware detection with performance counters

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Author	Schmitz, Jared Tang, Adrian Stolfo, Salvatore Maycock, Matthew Demme, John Waksman, Adam Sethumadhavan, Simha
Abstract	The proliferation of computers in any domain is followed by the proliferation of malware in that domain. Systems, including the latest mobile platforms, are laden with viruses, rootkits, spyware, adware and other classes of malware. Despite the existence of anti-virus software, malware threats persist and are growing as there exist a myriad of ways to subvert anti-virus (AV) software. In fact, attackers today exploit bugs in the AV software to break into systems. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of building a malware detector in hardware using existing performance counters. We find that data from performance counters can be used to identify malware and that our detection techniques are robust to minor variations in malware programs. As a result, after examining a small set of variations within a family of malware on Android ARM and Intel Linux platforms, we can detect many variations within that family. Further, our proposed hardware modifications allow the malware detector to run securely beneath the system software, thus setting the stage for AV implementations that are simpler and less buggy than software AV. Combined, the robustness and security of hardware AV techniques have the potential to advance state-of-the-art online malware detection.
Starting Page	559
Ending Page	570
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01635964
DOI	10.1145/2508148.2485970
Journal	ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News (CARN)
Volume Number	41
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1981-04-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Security in hardware Machine learning Malware detection Performance counters Malware and its mitigation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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