A survey of malware behavior description and analysis

Bo YU; Ying FANG; Qiang YANG; Yong TANG; Liu LIU

doi:10.1631/FITEE.1601745

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A survey of malware behavior description and analysis

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- A survey of malware behavior description and analysis
- 恶意代码行为描述与分析综述
- Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering Vol. 19, Issue 5, Pages: 583-603(2018)
- Affiliations：
  
  College of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
- Author bio：
  
  Bo YU, E-mail: yubo0615@nudt.edu.cn
  [ "Ying FANG, E-mail: fangying15@nudt.edu.cn" ]
  [ "Qiang YANG, E-mail: q.yang@nudt.edu.cn" ]
  [ "Yong TANG, E-mail: ytang@nudt.edu.cn" ]
  [ "Liu LIU, E-mail: hotmailliuliu@163.com" ]
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1631/FITEE.1601745
  CLC： TP309.5
- Received：26 November 2016，
  
  Revised：2018-;5-;8，
  
  Published：2018-05
- Accepted：
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Bo YU, Ying FANG, Qiang YANG, et al. A survey of malware behavior description and analysis[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2018, 19(5): 583-603.
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Bo YU, Ying FANG, Qiang YANG, et al. A survey of malware behavior description and analysis[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2018, 19(5): 583-603. DOI： 10.1631/FITEE.1601745.

摘要

基于行为的分析是恶意代码自动分析和检测过程中的一项重要技术，近年来得到学术界和工业界极大关注。恶意代码行为分析技术，能够避免传统静态分析技术遇到的恶意代码混淆的障碍，也能够通过行为描述规范表达恶意代码样本多样化的行为类型。目前，虽有一些关注恶意代码行为分析的工作，但基于行为的恶意代码分析技术仍未成熟，目前尚未发现介绍当前研究进展和发展挑战的综述。本文从3个方面对恶意代码的行为描述和分析进行综述：恶意代码行为描述，恶意代码行为分析模型，可视化。首先，全面梳理了现有行为分析技术的分析目标、原则、特点和分类，包括现有行为数据类型和描述方法；其次，从多方面分析恶意代码分析的不足和挑战；最后，探讨了潜在研究热点。

Abstract

Behavior-based malware analysis is an important technique for automatically analyzing and detecting malware

and it has received considerable attention from both academic and industrial communities. By considering how malware behaves

we can tackle the malware obfuscation problem

which cannot be processed by traditional static analysis approaches

and we can also derive the as-built behavior specifications and cover the entire behavior space of the malware samples. Although there have been several works focusing on malware behavior analysis

such research is far from mature

and no overviews have been put forward to date to investigate current developments and challenges. In this paper

we conduct a survey on malware behavior description and analysis considering three aspects: malware behavior description

behavior analysis methods

and visualization techniques. First

existing behavior data types and emerging techniques for malware behavior description are explored

especially the goals

principles

characteristics

and classifications of behavior analysis techniques proposed in the existing approaches. Second

the inadequacies and challenges in malware behavior analysis are summarized from different perspectives. Finally

several possible directions are discussed for future research.

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