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Title | ||
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A Post-Mortem Empirical Investigation of the Popularity and Distribution of Malware Files in the Contemporary Web-Facing Internet. |
Abstract | ||
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This short empirical paper investigates a snapshot of about two million files from a continuously updated big data collection maintained by F-Secure for security intelligence purposes. By further augmenting the snapshot with open data covering about a half of a million files, the paper examines two questions: (a) what is the shape of a probability distribution characterizing the relative share of malware files to all files distributed from web-facing Internet domains; and (b) what is the distribution shaping the popularity of malware files? A bimodal distribution is proposed as an answer to the former question, while a graph theoretical definition for the popularity concept indicates a long-tailed, extreme value distribution. With these two questions -and the answers thereto, the paper contributes to the attempts to understand large-scale characteristics of malware at the grand population level - at the level of the whole Internet. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1109/EISIC.2016.30 | European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
malware,web crawling,security intelligence | Open data,Population,World Wide Web,Computer science,Popularity,Malware,Web crawler,Big data,Snapshot (computer storage),The Internet | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
2572-3723 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jukka Ruohonen | 1 | 55 | 13.05 |
| Sanja Scepanovic | 2 | 5 | 2.79 |
| Sami Hyrynsalmi | 3 | 145 | 32.53 |
| Igor Mishkovski | 4 | 15 | 7.19 |
| Tuomas Aura | 5 | 552 | 77.28 |
| Ville Leppänen | 6 | 240 | 56.53 |