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Intra-Procedural Path-Insensitive Grams (I-Grams) And Disassembly Based Features For Packer Tool Classification And Detection, Scott E. Gerics
Intra-Procedural Path-Insensitive Grams (I-Grams) And Disassembly Based Features For Packer Tool Classification And Detection, Scott E. Gerics
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The DoD relies on over seven million computing devices worldwide to accomplish a wide range of goals and missions. Malicious software, or malware, jeopardizes these goals and missions. However, determining whether an arbitrary software executable is malicious can be difficult. Obfuscation tools, called packers, are often used to hide the malicious intent of malware from anti-virus programs. Therefore detecting whether or not an arbitrary executable file is packed is a critical step in software security. This research uses machine learning methods to build a system, the Polymorphic and Non-Polymorphic Packer Detection (PNPD) system, that detects whether an executable is packed …