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ExterminatorThe World without Malware
Opportunity!Malware damage costs businesses worldwide over $13.3 billion annually. An analyst needs 20 to 30 minutes to manually inspect a new malware sample. The current approach is clearly not keeping up with the increase in malware counts.
Weaknesses of Commercial Tools
DetectionClassificationSignature Extraction Requires human analysts Brittle and easy to circumvent by code obfuscation
Exterminator automates the entire process, and is robust in the presence of code obfuscation.
Exterminator
Exterminator:Automatic malware detection and classification
malwareAnswers to two questions:Is it malware?What type of malware?
goodware
Research Prototype ResultsAchieves 80% accuracy on detecting polymorphic malwareVery crude preliminary research prototypeCurrent refinement work will push accuracy much furtherClassifies previously unseen malware samples into families with high certainty
Malware Classification
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