POSTER: Cross-Platform Malware: Write Once, Infect Everywhere

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In this ongoing work we perform the first systematic investigation of cross-platform (X-platform) malware. As a first step, this paper presents an exploration into existing X-platform malware families and X-platform vulnerabilities used to distribute them. Our exploration shows that X-platform malware uses a wealth of methods to achieve portability. It also shows that exploits for X-platform vulnerabilities are X-platform indeed and readily available in commercial exploit kits, making them an inexpensive distribution vector for X-platform malware.

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@inproceedings{Lindorfer2013POSTER_Cross-Platform,
  title     = {{POSTER: Cross-Platform Malware: Write Once, Infect Everywhere}},
  author    = {Lindorfer, Martina and Neumayr, Matthias and Caballero, Juan and Platzer, Christian},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
  series    = {CCS},
  month     = {November},
  year      = {2013},
  address   = {Berlin, Germany}
}