Evolution of evasive malwares: A survey
Ashish Jadhav, Deepti Vidyarthi, M. Hemavathy · 2016
The threat of malware is perpetual in digital computing systems. To counter the infection, malware industries and analysts have been coming with cutting-edge solutions and preventive measures for various categories of malware threats. At the same time malware authors are putting consistent efforts to evade security solutions and prevention systems. In this paper we will discuss about indispensable need to study and analyze the effects of evasive malwares on analysis systems. Malicious intention of malware authors can be to harm the systems without being detected such that their malware can reside into the system for longer duration. This paper discusses number of techniques which has been found in evasive malwares to elude the malware solutions. We will discuss about piles of evasive technique that might be possible in next generation malwares. Also this paper can assists to build the hardened malware analysis environments such that chances of elusion by the evasive malwares can be diminished.