The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware

By Niels Provos, D. McNamee, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Ke Wang, Nagendra Modadugu. Conference on Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets, 2007

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Identifying suspicious URLs: an application of large-scale online learning (2009, background): “Several projects have also explored operating systems-level techniques whereby the client visits the Web site using an instrumented virtual machine (VM) (Moshchuk et al., 2006; Wang et al., 2006; Provos et al., 2007).”
Adversarial Web Search (2011, background): “Further, some spam pages exist to promote or even install malware [68, 192, 193].”
Graph based anomaly detection and description: a survey (2014, background): “2005), malicious cargo shipments (Das and Schneider 2007; Eberle and Holder 2007) malware/spyware detection (Invernizzi and Comparetti 2012; Ma et al. 2009; Provos et al. 2007), false advertising (Lee et al.”
An empirical study of privacy-violating information flows in JavaScript web applications (2010, background): “the browser to fully compromise the machine [24] or mounts a phishing attack.”
PhishZoo: Detecting Phishing Websites by Looking at Them (2011, background): “abilities to infect machines with malware (drive by downloads [26]).”
All Your iFRAMEs Point to Us (2008, background): “[20] provided insights on this new phenomenon, and presented a cursory overview of web-based malware.”
Detection and analysis of drive-by-download attacks and malicious JavaScript code (2010, background): “…and Malicious JavaScript Code Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni VignaUniversity of California, Santa Barbara {marco,chris,vigna}@cs.ucsb.edu ABSTRACT JavaScript is a browser scripting language that allows developers to create sophisticated client-side interfaces for web applications.”
A survey of the applications of text mining in financial domain (2016, background): “Provos et al. (2007) also performed research on web malwares.”
Cloud Hooks: Security and Privacy Issues in Cloud Computing (2011, background): “Web browsers, a key element for many cloud computing services, and the various available plug-ins and extensions for them are notorious for their security problems [34, 53, 54].”