Software Similarity and Classification

• Main Authors: Cesare, Silvio (Author), Xiang, Yang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer security.; Computers.; Law and legislation.; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Legal Aspects of Computing.

Software similarity and classification is an emerging topic with wide applications. It is applicable to the areas of malware detection, software theft detection, plagiarism detection, and software clone detection. Extracting program features, processing those features into suitable representations,...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Taxonomy of Program Features
• Program Transformations and Obfuscations
• Formal Methods of Program Analysis
• Static Analysis of Binaries
• Dynamic Analysis
• Feature Extraction
• Software Birthmark Similarity
• Software Similarity Searching and Classification
• Applications
• Future Trends and Conclusion.