NDLI: Cobra: fine-grained malware analysis using stealth localized-executions

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Vasudevan, A. Yerraballi, R.
Copyright Year	2006
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Texas Univ., Arlington, TX (Vasudevan, A.; Yerraballi, R.)
Abstract	Fine-grained code analysis in the context of malware is a complex and challenging task that provides insight into malware code-layers (polymorphic/metamorphic), its data encryption/decryption engine, its memory layout etc., important pieces of information that can be used to detect and counter the malware and its variants. Current research in fine-grained code analysis can be categorized into static and dynamic approaches. Static approaches have been tailored towards malware and allow exhaustive fine-grained malicious code analysis, but lack support for self-modifying code, have limitations related to code-obfuscations and face the undecidability problem. Given that most if not all malware employ self-modifying code and code-obfuscations, poses the need to analyze them at runtime using dynamic approaches. However, current dynamic approaches for fine-grained code analysis are not tailored specifically towards malware and lack support for multithreading, self-modifying/self-checking code and are easily detected and countered by ever-evolving anti-analysis tricks employed by malware. To address this problem, we propose a powerful dynamic fine-grained malicious code analysis framework, codenamed Cobra, to combat malware that are becoming increasingly hard to analyze. Our goal is to provide a stealth, efficient, portable and easy-to-use framework supporting multithreading, self-modifying/self-checking code and any form of code obfuscation in both user- and kernel-mode on commodity operating systems. Cobra cannot be detected or countered and can be dynamically and selectively deployed on malware specific code-streams while allowing other code-streams to execute as is. We also illustrate the framework utility by describing our experience with a tool employing Cobra to analyze a real-world malware
Sponsorship	IBM Corp
Starting Page	15
Ending Page	279
File Size	390925
Page Count	265
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769525741
ISSN	10816011
DOI	10.1109/SP.2006.9
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2006-05-21
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Information analysis Cryptography Engines Counting circuits Runtime Multithreading Operating systems Performance analysis Computer science Data engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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