Swarm virus - Next-generation virus and antivirus paradigm?

In this article, we outline a possible dynamics, structure, and a behavior of a hypothetical (up to now) swarm malware as a background for a future antimalware system. We suggest how to capture and visualize behavior of such malware when it walks through the file system of an operating system. The s...

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Published in:Swarm and evolutionary computation 2018-12, Vol.43, p.207-224
Main Authors: Zelinka, Ivan, Das, Swagatam, Sikora, Lubomir, Šenkeřík, Roman
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ant colony optimization
Complex network
Computer virus
Evolutionary algorithms
Identification
Security
Swarm algorithms
Swarm intelligence
Swarm malware
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Summary:In this article, we outline a possible dynamics, structure, and a behavior of a hypothetical (up to now) swarm malware as a background for a future antimalware system. We suggest how to capture and visualize behavior of such malware when it walks through the file system of an operating system. The swarm virus prototype, designed here, mimics a swarm system behavior and thus follows the main idea underlying the swarm intelligence algorithms. The information of the prototype's behavior is stored and visualized in the form of a complex network, reflecting virus communication and swarm behavior. The network nodes are then individual virus instances. The network has certain properties associated with its structure that can be used by the virus instances in its activities like locating target and executing payload on the right object. As the paper shows, the swarm behavior pattern can be incorporated also to an antimalware systems, and can be analyzed for a future computer system protection.
ISSN:2210-6502
DOI:10.1016/j.swevo.2018.05.003