MOMENTUM: MetamOrphic Malware Exploration Techniques Using MSA signatures

2012 International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 232-237

  Vinod, P ^a   Laxmi, V ^a   Gaur, M S ^a   Chauhan, Grijesh ^a  

^a MALAVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

bioinformatics; metamorphic malware; multiple sequence alignment; sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

ANTI VIRUS; CODE OBFUSCATION; DETECTION RATES; ENCRYPTION METHODS; EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES; FALSE ALARMS; MALWARES; METAMORPHIC MALWARE; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; SIGNATURE-MATCHING;

BIOINFORMATICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84863611404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2012.6207739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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