An Approach to Detect Malware Call-Home Activities

It is very common for active malware to call home, either to fetch updates and instructions or to send back stolen information. In an internal network where web access to the Internet must go through a proxy, the traffic that doesn't pass through the proxy and by default is dropped by the gateway...

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Tyler (Tianqiang) Cui

January 17, 2014

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