Malware Detection

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Christodorescu, Mihai (Editor), Jha, Somesh (Editor), Maughan, Douglas (Editor), Song, Dawn (Editor), Wang, Cliff (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: Advances in Information Security, 27
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Computer communication systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Data encryption (Computer science).; Coding theory.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data Encryption.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.; Coding and Information Theory.; Data Structures.

Many malicious attacks are achieved by malicious code or malware, such as viruses and worms. 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 depen...

Table of Contents:

• Overview
• Malware Evolution: A Snapshot of Threats and Countermeasures in 2005
• Software Analysis and Assurance
• Static Disassembly and Code Analysis
• A Next-Generation Platform for Analyzing Executables
• Behavioral and Structural Properties of Malicious Code
• Detection and Prevention of SQL Injection Attacks
• Distributed Threat Detection and Defense
• Very Fast Containment of Scanning Worms, Revisited
• Sting: An End-to-End Self-Healing System for Defending against Internet Worms
• An Inside Look at Botnets
• Can Cooperative Intrusion Detectors Challenge the Base-Rate Fallacy?
• Stealthy and Targeted Threat Detection and Defense
• Composite Hybrid Techniques For Defending Against Targeted Attacks
• Towards Stealthy Malware Detection
• Novel Techniques for Constructing Trustworthy Services
• Pioneer: Verifying Code Integrity and Enforcing Untampered Code Execution on Legacy Systems
• Principles of Secure Information Flow Analysis.