A scheme of PE virus detection using fragile software watermarking technique

International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 158-164

  Tian, Zuwei ^a,b   Sun, Xingming ^a,c   Yang, Hengfu ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUNAN FIRST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fragile software watermarking; Packed virus; PE virus; PE virus detection; SHA 1 algorithm

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ANTI VIRUS; LOGICAL STRUCTURE; PE FILES; PORTABLE EXECUTABLE; SHA-1 ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE WATERMARKING; SOFTWARE WATERMARKS; VIRUS DETECTION;

VIRUSES;

EID: 79952805076     PISSN: 19759339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4156/jdcta.vol5.issue2.18     Document Type: Article

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