Malware Analysis assisted by Bioinformatics Tools
Advisor Information
Dhundy Bastola
Location
Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom
Presentation Type
Poster
Start Date
8-3-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
8-3-2013 12:00 PM
Abstract
The use of Bioinformatics tools for analyzing digital artifacts is explored in a joint research project between Bioinformatics and Computer Security domains. An algorithm for creating “synthetic DNA” is presented which allows Bioinformatics tools which process DNA to be used. The sequence comparison tool BLAST is used to examine computer programming assignments for plagiarism, to cluster documents of different content types, and to look for similarities between variants of a particular malware strain.
Malware Analysis assisted by Bioinformatics Tools
Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom
The use of Bioinformatics tools for analyzing digital artifacts is explored in a joint research project between Bioinformatics and Computer Security domains. An algorithm for creating “synthetic DNA” is presented which allows Bioinformatics tools which process DNA to be used. The sequence comparison tool BLAST is used to examine computer programming assignments for plagiarism, to cluster documents of different content types, and to look for similarities between variants of a particular malware strain.
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