Polymorphic Wonn Detection Using A Fast Static Analysis Approach
Jintae Oh, Dae‐Won Kim, Ikkyun Kim, Jongsoo Jang, Yong-Hee Jeon · Information Security and Cryptology · 2009
In order to respond against worms which are malicious programs automatically spreading across communication networks, worm detection approach by generating signatures resulting from analyzing worm-related packets is being mostly used. However, to avoid such signature-based detection techniques, usage of exploits employing mutated polymorphic types are becoming more prevalent. In this paper, we propose a novel static analysis approach for detecting the decryption routine of polymorphic exploit code, Our approach detects a code routine for performing the decryption of the encrypted original code which are contained with the polymorphic exploit code within the network flows. The experiment results show that our approach can detect polymorphic exploit codes in which the static analysis resistant techniques are used. It is also revealed that our approach is more efficient than the emulation-based approach in the processing performance.