Title
Using Dynamic Taint Approach for Malware Threat.
Abstract
Most existing approaches focus on examining the values are dangerous for information flow within inter-suspicious modules of cloud applications (apps) in a host by using malware threat analysis, rather than the risk posed by suspicious apps were connected to the cloud computing server. Accordingly, this paper proposes a taint propagation analysis model incorporating a weighted spanning tree analysis scheme to track data with taint marking using several taint checking tools. In the proposed model, Android programs perform dynamic taint propagation to analyse the spread of and risks posed by suspicious apps were connected to the cloud computing server. In determining the risk of taint propagation, risk and defence capability are used for each taint path for assisting a defender in recognising the attack results against network threats caused by malware infection and estimate the losses of associated taint sources. Finally, a case of threat analysis of a typical cyber security attack is presented to demonstrate the proposed approach. Our approach verified the details of an attack sequence for malware infection by incorporating a finite state machine (FSM) to appropriately reflect the real situations at various configuration settings and safeguard deployment. The experimental results proved that the threat analysis model allows a defender to convert the spread of taint propagation to loss and practically estimate the risk of a specific threat by using behavioural analysis with real malware infection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICEBE.2015.75
ICEBE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Threat analysis, Malware behavioural analysis, Dynamic taint propagation, Finite state machine
Information flow (information theory),Data mining,Android (operating system),Software deployment,Computer science,Computer security,Finite-state machine,Taint checking,Spanning tree,Malware,Cloud computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ping Wang123515.84
Wenhui Lin231.40
Wun Jie Chao311.02
Kuo-Ming Chao41123130.82
Chi-Chun Lo559354.99