Stealth Malware

Collaborators: Prof. Richard Ford (Florida Institute of Technology), Dr. Marco Ramilli (University of Bologna)

Multistage attacks have been around for a long time. We are exploring multistage malware attacks, especially those where the malware is decomposed into separate agents that cooperate to achieve the same effect as the normal malware.

Papers

• M. Ramilli, M. Bishop, and S. Sun, “Multiprocess Malware,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (Oct. 2011).
• M. Bishop, R. Ford, and M. Ramilli, “Results-Oriented Security,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (Oct. 2011).
• M. Ramilli and M. Bishop, “Multi-Stage Delivery of Malware,” Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software pp. 91–97 (Oct. 2010).