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Leveraging program slicing to understand network traffic
Leveraging program slicing to understand network traffic
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Stewart, Allen Joel
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Saltaformaggio, Brendan D.
Beyah, Raheem A.
Smith, William W.
Beyah, Raheem A.
Smith, William W.
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This project centers around utilizing the concept of backward slice analysis of a binary to reconstruct the contents of a function call. To that end, a suite of modular tools will be developed to enable an analyst to glean relevant information about what data a binary is accessing and what it is doing with it. Each tool plays a small role in this overall goal while also being capable standing on its own. This functionality has utility in a variety of applications including detection of unauthorized gathering of personal information, malicious use of private functions, and unknown network protocol analysis. These use cases will be discussed in the paper.
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2019-12-04
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