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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering  2019 Vol.20 No.6 P.801-815

http://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1800523


Malware homology identification based on a gene perspective


Author(s):  Bing-lin Zhao, Zheng Shan, Fu-dong Liu, Bo Zhao, Yi-hang Chen, Wen-jie Sun

Affiliation(s):  State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, Zhengzhou 450001, China; more

Corresponding email(s):   gzu_zhaobl@126.com, zzzhengming@163.com, lwfydy@126.com

Key Words:  Malware classification, Gene perspective, Dependency graph, Homology analysis


Bing-lin Zhao, Zheng Shan, Fu-dong Liu, Bo Zhao, Yi-hang Chen, Wen-jie Sun. Malware homology identification based on a gene perspective[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2019, 20(6): 801-815.

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Abstract: 
Malware homology identification is important in attacking event tracing, emergency response scheme generation, and event trend prediction. Current malware homology identification methods still rely on manual analysis, which is inefficient and cannot respond quickly to the outbreak of attack events. In response to these problems, we propose a new malware homology identification method from a gene perspective. A malware gene is represented by the subgraph, which can describe the homology of malware families. We extract the key subgraph from the function dependency graph as the malware gene by selecting the key application programming interface (API) and using the community partition algorithm. Then, we encode the gene and design a frequent subgraph mining algorithm to find the common genes between malware families. Finally, we use the family genes to guide the identification of malware based on homology. We evaluate our method with a public dataset, and the experiment results show that the accuracy of malware classification reaches 97% with high efficiency.

基于基因视角的恶意代码同源性判定

摘要:恶意代码同源性判定对攻击事件溯源、应急响应方案处置以及事件发展趋势预测有重要作用。目前,恶意代码同源性判定以人工分析为主,效率较低,对安全事件的爆发无法快速响应。因此,提出一种新的从基因视角分析的恶意代码同源性判定方法。恶意代码基因由表示家族同源性的子图组成。通过筛选关键应用程序接口和利用社团划分算法,从函数依赖图中提取关键子图作为恶意代码基因。然后,设计一种频繁子图挖掘算法发现恶意代码家族的共有基因,并对基因编码。最后,利用家族共有基因指导恶意代码同源性判定。对公开数据集的分类和实验结果表明,分类准确率达97%,且效率较高。

关键词:恶意代码分类;基因视角;函数依赖图;同源性分析

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