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

Authors

Martina Lindorfer, Matthias Neumayr, Juan Caballero, Christian Platzer

Venue

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2013

Abstract

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.

BibTeX

@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}
}