Coevolution of mobile malware and anti-malware

As long as anti-malware software develops, malware writers also develop their malicious code by using various evasion strategiessuch as obfuscation and encryption. This is the lifecycle of malicious and anti-malware software. In this study, the use of evolutionary computation techniques are investigated, both for developing new variants of mobile malware which successfully evades anti-malware systems based on static analysis and for developing better security solutions against them automatically. Coevolutionary arms race mechanism has always been considered a potential candidate for developing a more robust system against new attacks and for system testing. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is the first application of coevolutionary computation to address this problem.

Sponsored by Tubitak

RESEARCH TOPICS

  • Malware Generation
  • Malware Detection
  • Evolutionary Computation

TEAM

Dr. Sevil Sen

Cyber Security,ML

PI

Emre Aydoğan

Malware Analysis

Research Assistant

İlhan Aysan

Network Security

PhD Student

Burhan Özkan

NLP, ML

PhD Student

PUBLICATIONS

THESIS

Student: Emre Aydogan, MSc
Thesis title: Automatic Generation of Mobile Malware using Genetic Programming

Date: August, 2014

Supervisor: Sevil Sen