Events & News
Colloquium
| Category | Lecture |
| Date | Thursday, October 29, 2009 |
| Time | 11:00 am |
| Location | GS 906 |
| Details | Light refreshments - 9th floor Atrium - 10:45 am |
| Speaker | Saumya Debray |
| Title | Professor, Department of Computer Science |
| Affiliation | University of Arizona |
Horrible Code: Adventures in Understanding Malware Programs
ABSTRACT: Malware programs (worms, trojans, etc.) use a variety of obfuscations and other defense mechanisms to make their code difficult to examine and understand. Current program analysis and reverse engineering tools provide very little support for dealing with such defenses, which
typically have to be identified and dealt with manually. Our research
aims to develop automated techniques for removing obfuscation code and
making the malware logic easier to understand. This talk explores some
of the kinds of obfuscations used by malware and discusses ideas for
overcoming them.