Unveiling zeus automated classification of malware samples

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 829-832

  Mohaisen, Abedelaziz ^a   Alrawi, Omar ^a  

^a VeriSign Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic analysis; Classification; Malware

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ANTI VIRUS; AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; BEHAVIOR-BASED; CLASSIFIEDS; FILESYSTEM; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MALWARE FAMILIES; MALWARES; SYSTEMS NETWORKS;

MALWARE;

EID: 84893088485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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