Static Detection of Malware
Olav Lysne · 2018
In the search for research fields that can shed light on our issue of checking a piece of equipment for unwanted functionality, static malware detection stands out as the most obvious candidate. Malware detection is as old as malware itself and its main goal is to discover if maliciously behaving code has been introduced into an otherwise clean system by a third party. In this chapter, we consider techniques that are static, in the sense that they are based on investigating the code rather than a running system. We will return to dynamic methods in a later chapter.