Title
Determining vulnerability resolution time by examining malware proliferation rates
Abstract
One of the ways that malware infects is by exploiting weaknesses in computer systems, often through conditions in software. When this happens, software and operating system vendors must repair these vulnerabilities by patching their software. However, vendors can release patches but cannot force users to apply them. Malware attempts to proliferate without regard to the state of the infected system; it is only once that the malware infection is stopped that we can truly say that systems are patched to eliminate that exploit. By examining appearance and disappearance of malware types, as determined through dynamic analysis of malware samples, classified by behavioral profiles correlated with a timeline of discovery dates, we can determine a more real-world average time for effective patch times, as opposed to the time it takes for a vendor to release a patch for a discovered vulnerability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/IWCMC.2013.6583808
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
invasive software,operating systems (computers),computer system weaknesses,dynamic analysis,effective patch time,malware appearance,malware disappearance,malware proliferation rate,vulnerability resolution time,Malware,Malware Emergence,Malware Trends,Patch Time,Vulnerability Resolution
Cryptovirology,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Asprox botnet,Timeline,Exploit,Software,Vulnerability management,Malware,Cyber-collection
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2376-6492
978-1-4673-2479-3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jeremy D. Seideman110.36
Bilal Khan26811.70
Ghassen Ben Brahim3559.05