Exploiting an antivirus interface

Computer Standards and Interfaces

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1182-1189

  Hamlen, Kevin W ^a   Mohan, Vishwath ^a   Masud, Mohammad M ^a   Khan, Latifur ^a   Thuraisingham, Bhavani ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary obfuscation; Data mining; Security; Signature based malware detection

Indexed keywords

ANTI VIRUS; BINARY OBFUSCATION; MALWARES; REVERSE ENGINEERS; SECURITY; SIGNATURE DATABASE; SIGNATURE-BASED MALWARE DETECTION;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MINING;

DETECTORS;

EID: 68849090525     PISSN: 09205489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csi.2009.04.004     Document Type: Article

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