Title: Malware Detection Using Dynamic Birthmarks,
Abstract: In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of dynamic analysis techniques
for identifying malware, using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Profile Hidden
Markov Models (PHMMs), both trained on sequences of API calls. We contrast our
results to static analysis using HMMs trained on sequences of opcodes, and show
that dynamic analysis achieves significantly stronger results in many cases.
Furthermore, in contrasting our two dynamic analysis techniques, we find that
using PHMMs consistently outperforms our analysis based on HMMs.