Fighting malware and spam

VB2011 Barcelona - slides

The following are the presentation slides shown by speakers at the VB2011 conference in Barcelona. We are still waiting for some of the slides to be supplied to us - these will be added when they are submitted to us. The slides are arranged in chronological order of the presentations. All files are in pdf format unless otherwise specified.

Corporate stream

• Maria Patricia Revilla (presented by Robert Sandilands) ('A study of malicious attacks on Facebook')
• David Harley and Larry Bridwell ('Daze of whine and neuroses (but testing is FINE)')
• Sabrina Raluca Datcu ('A second life in a virtual environment: from simple socialization to revealing sensitive information')
• Alexandru Catalin Cosoi and Daniel Dichiu ('Automating Social Engineering')
• George Lucian Petre ('Social threats: how fragile we are')
• Max Goncharov ('Traffic direction systems as malware distribution tools')
• Brett Cove ('Following the tracks: understanding snowshoe spam')
• Tim Armstrong and Denis Maslennikov ('Android malware is on the rise')
• Martin Lee and Daren Lewis ('Clustering disparate attacks: mapping the activities of the advanced persistent threat')
• Jindrich Kubec and Jiri Sejtko ('X is not enough! Grab the PDF by the tail!')
• Christopher Boyd ('Web browsers: a history of rogues')
• Taeil Goh ('1 + 1 !=2 in malware scanning')
• Gunter Ollmann ('Your reputation precedes you')
• Denis Maslennikov ('Cell phone money laundering')
• Terry Zink ('Practical cybersecurity')
• Holly Stewart ('Top exploits of 2011')

Technical stream

• Aditya Kapoor and Rachit Mathur ('Predicting the future of stealth attacks')
• Pierre-Marc Bureau ('Same botnet, same guys, new code')
• Jeff Edwards and Jose Nazario ('A survey of contemporary Chinese DDoS malware')
• Jon Larimer ('The dangers of per-user COM objects in Windows')
• Ethan YX Chen ('File-fraction reputation based on digest of high granularity')
• Onur Komili ('Strategies for monitoring Fake AV distribution networks')
• Igor Muttik ('Malware mining')
• Axelle Apvrille ('An OpenBTS GSM replication jail for mobile malware')
• Aditya Sood ('Browser exploit packs - exploitation paradigm')
• Rachit Mathur and Zheng Zhang ('Analysing the packer layers of rogue anti-virus programs')
• Bing Liu ('Dissecting Flash with EASE (Experimental ActionScript Emulator)')
• Stephen Edwards and Paul Baccas ('Fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files: heuristics for detection of exploited OLE2 files based on specification non-conformance')
• Aleksander Czarnowski ('Static shellcode analysis and classification')

'Last-minute' technical papers

• Andrea Lelli ('Cracking Xpaj; code and payload')
• Eugene Rodionov and Aleksandr Matrosov ('Modern bootkit trends: bypassing kernel-mode signing policy')
• Jong Purisima and Phillip Wolf ('MUTE - Malware URL Tracking and Exchange')
• Vicente Diaz ('I looked at the eyes of Diablo and found an army of girls')
• Mark Kennedy and Igor Muttik ('IEEE Software Taggant System')

Reserve papers

• Takashi Katsuki ('GPGPU and threat analysis')