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Summary: Computer
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Characterizing Malcode Evolution
Archit Gupta
Pavan Kuppili
Aditya Akella
Paul Barford
Technical Report #1599
August 2007
Characterizing Malcode Evolution
Archit Gupta, Pavan Kuppili, Aditya Akella and Paul Barford
ABSTRACT
The diversity, sophistication and availability of malicious
software (malcode) pose enormous challenges for securing
networks and end hosts from attacks. In this paper, we an-
alyze a large corpus of malcode meta data compiled over a
period of 19 years. Our aim is to understand how malcode
has evolved over the years and in particular how different
instances of malcode relate to one another. We develop a
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