Abstract: Malware feature extraction derives semantic summaries of executable malware using global, inter-procedural program analysis techniques. A combination of global, inter-procedural program analysis techniques constructs semantic summaries of malware which automatically detect and discard any noise introduced by transformations and capture the essence of the underlying computations in a succinct form. This is achieved in two ways. First, global control flow analysis techniques are used to derive a high level representation of malware code that, for instance, removes the effects of subroutine calls. Second, global data flow analysis techniques are employed to detect and remove all spurious elements of malware that do not contribute towards its underlying computation, thereby preventing the resulting summaries from being “corrupted” with unnecessary, extraneous elements.

Abstract: A service creation and execution platform provides a unified representation for messages and network protocols. Specifically, the platform is flexible and relies on a bootstrapping approach which enables incorporation of new message formats and protocols. Additional capabilities of the platform include a Graphical User Interface which makes specification of network services easier.