Title :
Evaluation of open source anti-rootkit tools
Author :
Romana, Sandeep ; Jha, Alok K. ; Pareek, Himanshu ; Eswari, P.R.L.
Author_Institution :
Center for Dev. of Adv. Comput., Hyderabad, India
Abstract :
Rootkits belong to the family of malware that infect the systems in stealth. We studied different system subversion techniques used by rootkits on Windows platform. Then we identified thirteen operating system parameters to scan for rootkit infection. This paper evaluates the capabilities of open source anti-rootkits using these parameters.
Keywords :
invasive software; operating systems (computers); public domain software; Windows platform; malware; open source antirootkit tool evaluation; operating system parameters; rootkit infection scanning; system subversion techniques; Fats; Internet; Kernel; Libraries; Malware; Testing; anti-rootkit; open source; rootkit; testing;
Conference_Titel :
Anti-malware Testing Research (WATeR), 2013 Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
DOI :
10.1109/WATeR.2013.6707876
