VisibleV8: Stealthy Tool Detects Malware in Javascript

guest · Oct 25, 2019

Stealthy Tool Detects Malware in Javascript
October 25, 2019
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/10/stealthy-tool-detects-malware-javascript/160873/

The tool runs in the Chrome browser and is designed to detect malicious programs that are capable of evading existing malware detection systems.

“When you go to most websites, your browser starts running the site’s JavaScript programs pretty much immediately—and you have little or no idea of what that JavaScript is doing,” says coauthor Alexandros Kapravelos, an assistant professor of computer science at North Carolina State University.
“VisibleV8 runs in the browser itself, recording how JavaScript is executed; it doesn’t interact with the code and, as a result, is far more difficult to detect.”

VisibleV8 saves all of the data on how a site is using JavaScript, creating a “behavior profile” for the site. Researchers can then use that profile, and all of the supporting data, to identify both malicious websites and the various ways that JavaScript can compromise web browsers and user information.
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You can download VisibleV8 from Kapravelos’ site.
The researchers will present their work at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2019, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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