Malware Detection

Shared resources, such as the Internet, have created a highly interconnected cyber-infrastructure. Critical infrastructures in domains such as medical, power, telecommunications, and finance are highly dependent on information systems. These two factors have exposed our critical infrastructures to malicious attacks and accidental failures. Many malicious attacks are achieved by malicious code or malware, such as viruses and worms. Given the deleterious affects of malware on our cyber infrastructure, identifying malicious programs is an important goal. Unfortunately, malware detectors have not kept pace with the evasion techniques commonly used by hackers, i.e., the good guys are falling behind in the arms race.

Malware Detection captures the state of the art research in the area of malicious code detection, prevention and mitigation.

• Binary software analysis
• Cooperative detection
• Detection
• Information
• Malware
• Obfuscated and stealthy malware
• SQL
• Security
• Software Integrity and Assurance
• Trustworthy systems
• code
• communication
• data structures

• Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  Mihai Christodorescu, Somesh Jha

• Dept. of Homeland Security, Washington D.C.

  Douglas Maughan

• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

  Dawn Song

• Computing and Information Science Div., U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC

  Cliff Wang

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