NDLI: Always the Same, Never the Same

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ramilli, M. Prandini, M.
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	In this paper, existing sophisticated techniques can provide a deep and effective analysis to discover whether files hide a computer virus or other malware. Examples of the most effective approaches are heuristic or exhaustive static code analysis and behavior alanalysis in a sandbox environment. However, given the huge number of circulating malware and the high-performance impact associated with the aforementioned approaches, the most frequently employed tool remains signature detection. Antivirus software (AVS) is endowed with a database of patterns signatures, each characterizing a known malware or variant thereof. By scanning a target file, an AVS is able to tell whether it contains traces revealing the presence of malware, or if it's clean-a generally applicable approach, valued for its efficiency, which makes it suitable for real-time analysis of user-requested content. Unfortunately, today's malware writers can easily sneak their creations past most signature-based antimalware programs by beating the raw speed at which the signature databases can be updated after a new malware is observed in the wild, and, most notably, by creating countless variants of the same malware, each one sporting a different signature. The author mentions that the installment of Attack Trends foresees the inclusion of AVS in the design loop, leading to a more effective process for the generation of new variants of malware based on the direct manipulation of binary code.
Sponsorship	IEEE Computer Society
File Size	1053778
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15407993
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-03-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Databases Binary codes Signature detection evasion Computer security Computer viruses Code mutation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Computer Networks and Communications Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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