- Title
- Cybercrime : The case of obfuscated malware
- Creator
- Alazab, Mamoun; Venkatraman, Sitalakshmi; Watters, Paul; Alazab, Moutaz; Alazab, Ammar
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/63317
- Identifier
- vital:4829
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33448-1_28
- Identifier
- ISBN:18678211 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Cybercrime has rapidly developed in recent years and malware is one of the major security threats in computer which have been in existence from the very early days. There is a lack of understanding of such malware threats and what mechanisms can be used in implementing security prevention as well as to detect the threat. The main contribution of this paper is a step towards addressing this by investigating the different techniques adopted by obfuscated malware as they are growingly widespread and increasingly sophisticated with zero-day exploits. In particular, by adopting certain effective detection methods our investigations show how cybercriminals make use of file system vulnerabilities to inject hidden malware into the system. The paper also describes the recent trends of Zeus botnets and the importance of anomaly detection to be employed in addressing the new Zeus generation of malware. © 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering.
- Publisher
- Thessaloniki Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Relation
- Joint 7th International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability, ICGS3 2011, and the 4th Conference on e-Democracy Vol. 99 LNICST, p. 204-211
- Rights
- Copyright 2012 ICST Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Cybercrime; Intrusion Detection; Malware; Obfuscation; Anomaly detection; Botnets; Cybercriminals; Detection methods; File systems; Recent trends; Security threats; Sustainable development; Computer crime
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