Scalable malware clustering through coarse-grained behavior modeling

• Main Authors: CHANDRAMOHAN, Mahinthan, TAN, Hee Beng Kuan, SHAR, Lwin Khin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Malware clustering; Coarse-grained behavior modeling; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4782; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5785/viewcontent/Scalable_Malware_Clustering_through_Coarse_FSE12.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Anti-malware vendors receive several thousand new malware (malicious software) variants per day. Due to large volume of malware samples, it has become extremely important to group them based on their malicious characteristics. Grouping of malware variants that exhibit similar behavior helps to gener...