Essays about: "malware behavior"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words malware behavior.

1. 1. Students’ Perception of Cyber Threat Severity : Investigating Alignment with Actual Risk Levels

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Ramtin Erfani Torbaghani; [2023]
   Keywords : Cyber Security; Cyber Threat; Perception; Cyber Attack; Ransomware; Malware; Phishing; Packet Sniffing; Denial of Service; Insecure Passwords; IoT; Vulnerability Scanning; Brute Force Attacks; Awareness; Behaviour; Familiarity; University Students;

   Abstract : This study aims to investigate the alignment between students’ perception of cyber threats and their actual risk levels. A mixed-method approach was used, where data was collected from Swedish university students through questionnaires, capturing their perception, familiarity, experience, and protective behaviors. READ MORE

3. 2. Increased evasion resilience in modern PDF malware detectors : Using a more evasive training dataset

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

   Author : Oscar Ekholm; [2022]
   Keywords : Malware Analysis; Malicious PDF; Malware Detection; Machine Learning; Evasion; Analys av skadlig programvara; Skadlig PDF; Detektion av skadlig programvara; Maskininlärning; Undanflykt;

   Abstract : The large scale usage of the PDF coupled with its versatility has made the format an attractive target for carrying and deploying malware. Traditional antivirus software struggles against new malware and PDF's vast obfuscation options. In the search of better detection systems, machine learning based detectors have been developed. READ MORE

4. 3. Comparing state-of-the-art machine learning malware detection methods on Windows

   University essay from

   Author : Filip Ahlgren; [2021]
   Keywords : Malware; Machine Learning; Static Analysis;

   Abstract : Background. Malware has been a major issue for years and old signature scanning methods for detecting malware are outdated and can be bypassed by most advanced malware. With the help of machine learning, patterns of malware behavior and structure can be learned to detect the more advanced threats that are active today. Objectives. READ MORE

5. 4. The Development and Effectiveness of Malware Vaccination : An Experiment

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för datavetenskap

   Author : Lukas Ädel; Oskar Eliasson; [2020]
   Keywords : vaccine; data-points; malware;

   Abstract : Background. The main problem that our master thesis is trying to reduce is malware infection. One method that can be used to accomplish this goal is based on the fact that most malware does not want to get caught by security programs and are actively trying to avoid them. READ MORE

6. 5. Studying the effectiveness of dynamic analysis for fingerprinting Android malware behavior

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Databas och informationsteknik

   Author : Viktor Regard; [2019]
   Keywords : Android malware; dynamic analysis; droidbox; cuckoodroid; droidscope; mobsf; malware behavior; correlation; pearson correlation; cosine similarity; euclidean distance; chebyshev distance; mahalanobis distance; similarity analysis; static features; dynamic features; tf-idf; term frequency inverse document frequency; AMD; Android malware dataset; malware dataset; UpDroid; EC2;

   Abstract : Android is the second most targeted operating system for malware authors and to counter the development of Android malware, more knowledge about their behavior is needed. There are mainly two approaches to analyze Android malware, namely static and dynamic analysis. READ MORE