I would like to know the importance of TCS in Malware research. Due to the large volume of new malware variants received per day (~50,000 samples/day according to McAfee), malware researchers are heavily dependent on dynamic analysis (i.e. running the samples in a sandbox and monitoring their behavior) and moving away from static analysis and Reverse engineering as these approaches are very time consuming and sometimes becomes very challenging due to  obfuscation/encryption. I found a very useful talk (BlackHat 2010) by Greg Hoglund on Malware attribution where the speaker talks about the importance of bringing in the malware authors and their networks into the picture which gives valuable information than just analyzing the binary itself.I have two questions:If malware researchers move towards analyzing the behavior of malware authors and their network, in the future does TCS has any importance in malware research.  As I am not strong in TCS, I would like to know where exactly TCS fitsin malware research.Thank you.
Appilicability of Theoritical Computer Science in Malware research
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