Danilo Bruschi, Lorenzo Martignoni, Mattia Monga
Technical Report 08-06, Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione - Universita degli Studi di Milano, 2006.
2006
Download PDF (120.62Kb) (You need to be registered on forum)Self mutating malware has been introduced by computer virus writers who, in '90s, started to write polymorphic and metamorphic viruses in order to defeat anti-virus products. In this paper we present a novel approach for dealing with self mutating code which could represent the basis for a new detection strategy for this type of malware. A tool prototype has been implemented in order to validate the idea and the results are quite encouraging, and indicate that it could represent a new strategy for detecting this kind of malware