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Evolution and Detection of Polymorphic and Metamorphic Malwares: A Survey

by Ashu Sharma, S. K. Sahay
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 90 - Number 2
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Ashu Sharma, S. K. Sahay
10.5120/15544-4098

Ashu Sharma, S. K. Sahay . Evolution and Detection of Polymorphic and Metamorphic Malwares: A Survey. International Journal of Computer Applications. 90, 2 ( March 2014), 7-11. DOI=10.5120/15544-4098

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author = { Ashu Sharma, S. K. Sahay },
title = { Evolution and Detection of Polymorphic and Metamorphic Malwares: A Survey },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { March 2014 },
volume = { 90 },
number = { 2 },
month = { March },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 7-11 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume90/number2/15544-4098/ },
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Abstract

Malwares are big threat to digital world and evolving with high complexity. It can penetrate networks, steal confidential information from computers, bring down servers and can cripple infrastructures etc. To combat the threat/attacks from the malwares, anti- malwares have been developed. The existing anti-malwares are mostly based on the assumption that the malware structure does not changes appreciably. But the recent advancement in second generation malwares can create variants and hence posed a challenge to anti-malwares developers. To combat the threat/attacks from the second generation malwares with low false alarm we present our survey on malwares and its detection techniques.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Malwares Antimalware Polymorphic Metamorphic.

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