MS Researchers Tackle Automated Malware Classification

ronjor · May 12, 2006

A research paper presented by Microsoft's lead anti-virus researcher, Tony Lee, described the existing process of manual human malware analysis as "inefficient and inadequate" and suggested an ambitious method that combines runtime behavior analysis, static binary analysis and adaptable algorithms to automate classification.
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ronjor · Jun 8, 2006

The reverse engineer--better known amongst security researchers by his nom de plume, Halvar Flake-- created an automated system for classifying software into groups, a process for which he believes machines are much better suited. Research using the system has underscored the sometimes-arbitrary decisions humans make in classifying malicious programs, he said. Among other anomalies, he found that Sasser.D has only a 69 percent correlation to previous members of the Sasser family, while two examples of bot software, Gobot and Ghostbot, are more similar.
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