Hardware Performance Counters Can Detect Malware: Myth or Fact?

Speaker/Bio

Boyou Zhou is a fifth year phd working for Prof. Ajay Joshi. We collaborate with Prof. Manuel Egele on this project to explore the security features using hardware units.

Abstract

Previous works have shown the hardware performance counters can detect malware. Our work presents a thorough evaluation on the feasibility of this method. In the end, we provide a few guidelines for research conducted in this area.

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