An Experimental Analysis on Detection of Corona Virus Malware Attacks and Its Preventive Measures
Soumi Banerjee, Swapnil Shinde, Anita Patil · Advances in information security, privacy, and ethics book series · 2020
Coronavirus has affected China massively. This creates dread among the peoples in the world. Cyber criminals tend to take advantage of fear through malicious activities. Cyber criminals generate a phishing and spam campaign to trick the people in the name of Coronavirus. According to current analysis, the criminals hide malware behind different documents that are shared for creating awareness for the people regarding Coronavirus. Kaspersky technologies discovered that such documents contain viruses, trojans, worms, etc. (malwares) that can infect other files on victims' systems and corrupt or encrypt them. In this chapter, the nature, behavior, and types of different malware and their impacts are analyzed. An analysis is performed on how attackers' attacks using that malware to misuse the victim's data and what the techniques used to perform the attack are. In this chapter, an experimental analysis is performed to detect these attacks, and also measures and guidelines are proposed to prevent these types of attacks.