Detecting Obfuscated Viruses Using Cosine Similarity Analysis

Proceedings - 1st Asia International Conference on Modelling and Simulation: Asia Modelling Symposium 2007, AMS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 165-170

  Karnik, Abhishek ^a   Goswami, Suchandra ^a   Guha, Ratan ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER VIRUSES;

ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARES; COSINE SIMILARITY; HIGH PROBABILITY; PORTABLE EXECUTABLE; SIGNATURE BASED DETECTION TECHNIQUES; SIGNATURE DETECTION; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; VIRUS WRITERS;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 84963961440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AMS.2007.31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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