A Review of the Effectiveness of Malware Signature Databases against Metamorphic Malwares

Abstract

Known obfuscation techniques and other methods discovered by other researches such as Desai and Stamp (2010), Mohan & Hamlem(2012) have made detection of malware more difficult. This research is positioned to reviewing the current practices in the antivirus industry and determining if malware signature databases are adequate in detecting metamorphic malwares.