A virtualization based system infrastructure for dynamic program analysis

• Main Author: HONG, Jiaqi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: System security; hardware virtualization; code instrumentation; VM introspection; Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/265; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=etd_coll
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Dynamic malware analysis schemes either run the target program as is in an isolated environment assisted by additional hardware facilities or modify it with instrumentation code statically or dynamically. The hardware-assisted schemes usually trap the target during its execution to a more privileged...