Preventing drive-by download via inter-module communication monitoring
Chengyu Song, Jianwei Zhuge, Xinhui Han, Zhiyuan Ye · 2010
Drive-by download attack is one of the most severe threats to Internet users. Typically, only visiting a malicious page will result in compromise of the client and infection of malware. By the end of 2008, drive-by download had already become the number one infection vector of malware [5]. The downloaded malware may steal the users' personal identification and password. They may also join botnet to send spams, host phishing site or launch distributed denial of service attacks.