NDLI: Optimal position searching for automated malware signature generation

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Yangseo Choi Jintae Oh Jeonggun Lee Jaecheol Ryou
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Computer Engineering, Chung-Nam National University, Daejeon, Korea (Jaecheol Ryou) \|\| Dept. of Computer Engineering, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea (Jeonggun Lee) \|\| Information Security Research Division, ETRI, Daejeon, Korea (Yangseo Choi; Jintae Oh)
Abstract	When a new malware is found, anti-virus companies generate a signature for the malware. However, the malware analysis and signature generation are a time consuming process, because malwares utilize the sophisticated anti-reversing and obfuscation techniques. Therefore, it is very difficult to generate the signatures quickly enough to protect the malwares at the beginning of their propagations. In order to overcome this situation, a simple signature should be extracted automatically as soon as possible before the fully examined signature is generated. For automatic signature generation, the signature extraction position in the malwares also could be decided automatically and the extracted signatures should have low false positives. However, the relavant researches on the optimal position for automatic malware signature extraction are not enough yet. In this paper, we have investigated a method of searching the optimal area in a PE file for an automated malware signature generation. We show the results and the extracted signature's performance from the selected area with the real malwares. The area searching is done with the entropy and variance values because they can be used as a measurement of the randomness and uncertainty for each byte stream in malwares.
Starting Page	561
Ending Page	564
File Size	294646
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424429752
DOI	10.1109/ISCE.2009.5156878
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-05-25
Publisher Place	Japan
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Entropy Consumer electronics Information security Protection Area measurement Automation Linux Computer hacking Telecommunication traffic Computer crime variance malware signature position entropy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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