RBACS : Rootkit behavioral analysis and classification system
- Authors: Lobo, Desmond , Watters, Paul , Wu, Xinwen
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, WKDD 2010, Phuket : 9th-10th January 2010 p. 75-80
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- Description: In this paper, we focus on rootkits, a special type of malicious software (malware) that operates in an obfuscated and stealthy mode to evade detection. Categorizing these rootkits will help in detecting future attacks against the business community. We first developed a theoretical framework for classifying rootkits. Based on our theoretical framework, we then proposed a new rootkit classification system and tested our system on a sample of rootkits that use inline function hooking. Our experimental results showed that our system could successfully categorize the sample using unsupervised clustering. © 2010 IEEE.
The case for a consistent cyberscam classification framework (CCCF)
- Authors: Stabek, Amber , Brown, Simon , Watters, Paul
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at UIC-ATC 2009 - Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing in Conjunction with the UIC'09 and ATC'09 Conferences, Brisbane : 7th-9th July 2009 p. 525-530
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- Description: Cyberscam classification schemes developed by international statistical reporting bodies, including the Bureau of Statistics (Australia), the Internet Crime Complaint Center (US), and the Environics Research Group (Canada), are diverse and largely incompatible. This makes comparisons of cyberscam incidence across jurisdictions very difficult. This paper argues that the critical first step towards the development of an inter-jurisdictional and global approach to identify and intercept cyberscams - and prosecute scammers - is a uniform classification system. © 2009 IEEE.