Metamorphic authorship recognition using Markov models

2008-05-01

Mohamed R. Chouchane

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Andrew Walenstein

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Arun Lakhotia

University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Automated code morphing techniques can make malware recognition difficult. In this article researchers at the University of Lafayette propose a method that can be used to decide whether a binary is a variant of a known item of metamorphic malware by treating the morphing engine as an author.


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