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International Journal of Engineering and Techniques - Volume 1 Issue 6, Nov – Dec 2015 RESEARCH ARTICLE

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Review Paper On Adware Detection Using Instruction Sequence Generation Ms. Neeta D. Birajdar, Mr. Madhav N. Dhuppe, Ms. Trupti M. Hegade,Ms. Nikita S. Jadhav, Mr. Manoj D. Shelar 1(Department of Computer Engineering, VPCOE, Baramati ,Pune University)

Abstract: Adware is a software that may be installed on the client machine for displaying advertisements for the user of that machine with or without consideration of user. Adware can cause unrecoverable threat to the security and privacy of computer users as there is an increase in number of malicious adware’s. The paper presents an adware detection approach based on the application of data mining on disassembled code. This is an approach for an accurate adware detection algorithm with adware data set and machine learning techniques. In this paper, we disassemble binary files, generate instruction sequences and past his data through different data mining as well as machine learning algorithms for feature extraction and feature reduction for detection of malicious adware.Then system accurately detect both novel and known adware instances even though the binary difference between adware and legitimate software is usually small.

Keywords — Data Mining; Adware Detection; Binary Classification; Static Analysis; Disassembly; Instruction Sequences.

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INTRODUCTION Adware is pop-up, advertisement embedded in programs, get installed with or without consent of user. The adware once installed starts capturing all user’s machine information such as firewall settings, other browsing details and personal information to sell it to third party. National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA),the Online Safety Study recently found that 80 percent of scanned computers actually had some form of spyware or adware present.

Adware is a type malware whose main purpose is to earn money, user may accept adware presence knowingly for using freeware software or unknowingly, when it is obfuscated in the EULA. The user is also made to installing adware when trying to install other software or the installation of adware may be carried out as a background task without any human interaction at all. It is necessary to be able to automatically detect adware.Traditional detection techniques, i.e., signature-based and heuristic methods have a deficiency in detecting novel instances of traditional malware, spyware andadware.The data mining and machine learning

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algorithm are used for making system automatic.

The system takes self-decision for detection of new adware which is unknown to the dataset.It doesn’t need manual updating and provide automation in updating,thus unknown new adware are detected.

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MOTIVATION There are many softwares in market which detect viruses and worms but very few softwares for detection of adware.Though adware is type of malware it is neglected. Number of victims are increasing who lost there money and browsing records because of adware present in there machine.Few anti-adware software’s are available in market but they are not efficient as they uses signature and heuristic approaches for detection of adware. This things motivated us to build the adware detection using instruction sequence generation with the help of machine learning and data mining algorithms which is more efficient then present anti-adwares.

III. LITERATURE SURVEY 1) Accurate Adware Detection using Opcode Sequence Extraction

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Authors: Raja Khurram Shahzad,Niklas Lavesson, Henric Johnson This paper presents an adware detection approach based on the application of data mining ondisassembled code. There is extraction of sequences of opcodes from adware and benign software and then applied feature selection using six data mining algorithms. The proposed approach can be used to accurately detect both novel and known adware instances even though the binary difference between adware and legitimate software is usually small.

2) Disassembled Code Analyzer for Malware Authors:A.Sulaiman,K.Ramamoorthy,S.Mukkamal a, A. H. Sung It present a static detection technique using disassembly of a malware emphasizing the recognition of variants of a malware in its signature set. The identified malware can be analyzed to extract the signature, which will then be used to recognize its variants, technique uses disassembled code, it can be used on any operating system. It gives an analysis on how the technique can be extended to detect spyware is also presented.

3) Fighting Spyware And Adware In The Enterprise Author: Sarah Gordon This paper given the actual importance of adware detection and need of it for the current era. An AOL/National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) Online Safety Study recently found that 80 percent of scanned computers actually had some form of spyware or adware present.

4) Detection of Spyware by Mining Executable Files Authors: Raja Khurram Shazhad, Syed Imran Haider, Niklas Lavesson This paper gives DM-based malicious code detectors, which are known to work well for detecting viruses and similar software, these type of detector has not been investigated in terms of how well it is able to detect spyware. There is extraction of binary features, called n grams, from both spyware and legitimate software and apply five different supervised learning algorithms to train classifiers that are able to classify unknown binaries by analyzing extracted n-grams.

5) Data Mining Methods for Detection of New Malicious Executables Authors: Matthew G. Schultz and Eleazar Eskin , ErezZadok

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This paper present a data-mining framework that detects new, previously unseen malicious executables accurately and automatically. The data – mining framework automatically found patterns in the data set and used these patterns to detect a set of new malicious binaries.

6) Automated Spyware Detection Using End User License Agreements Authors: Martin Boldt, Andreas Jacobsson, Niklas Lavesson, Paul Davidsson This paper investigates the hypothesis that it is possible to detect from the End User License Agreement (EULA) whether its associated software hosts spyware or not. There is generation of a data set by collecting 100 applications with EULAs and classifying each EULA as either good or bad.

7) A Survey on Heuristic Malware Detection Techniques Authors: Zahra Bazrafshan, Hashem Hashemi, Seyed Mehdi Hazrati Fard, Ali Hamzeh There are three main methods used to malware detection: Signature based, Behavioral based and Heuristic ones.

In this paper,the state of the art heuristic malware detection methods and briefly overview various features used in these methods such as API Calls, OpCodes, N-Grams etc. and discuss their advantages and disadvantage 8) Malware Examiner using Disassembled Code (MEDIC) Authors: A. Sulaiman, K. Ramamoorthy, S. Mukkamala, Member, TEEE, andA.H.Sung In this paper,it present a robust assembly language signature-based malware detection technique. There is emphasis on detecting polymorphic malware and mutated (or metamorphic) malware.

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Malicious Code Detection Using Opcode Running Tree Representation Authors: Ding Yuxin, Dai Wei, Zhang Yibin,Xue Chenglong The papers show that the opcode behaviors extracted by the method can fully represent the behavior characteristics of an executable.

With the detection method based the opcode distributions,the proposed method has higher overall accuracy and a lower false positive rate.

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International Journal of Engineering and Techniques - Volume 1 Issue 6, Nov – Dec 2015 10) Detecting Scareware by Mining Variable Length Instruction Sequences Authors: Raja Khurram Shahzad, Niklas Lavesson This paper presents a scareware detection method that is based on the application of machine learning algorithms to learn patterns in extracted variable length opcode sequences derived from instruction sequences of binary files. The patterns are then used to classify software as legitimate or scareware but they may also reveal interpretable behavior that is unique to either type of software.

IV.ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: A. System Components Design: Disassembling Block: The executable code of software is converted into assembly language by N-Disasm tool and the instruction sequences are generated.

Features Extraction: The instruction sequence is taken as input and TFIDF algorithm is applied and features are extracted.

Features Reduction: The extracted features are reduced by using CPD algorithm and given to WEKA tool for generation of ARFF file.

Model Generation: Model is generated using instruction sequences and CPD value. Thus, tested with given software

Input: Adware file, Benign file 1) x: exe1,exe2,exe150 //executable file is given as input 2) F(x) = n-dissasm (inputset); //n-disassembling is called 3) Outf(y) = outputfile; //output is stored into output text file 4) Extract opcodes; //Instruction sequence generated 5) Outf(y) = assemfile; //output is stored into assem text file 6) G(y) = feature extraction(assem file); //featureextraction is called Frequency calculated and word count is found using TF-IDF. 7) Outf(y) = extracted-file; //output is stored into extracted text file 8) H(y) = feature-reduction(extracted-file); 9) Extracted features are reduced using CPD algorithm.

10) Outf(y) = reduced-file; //output is stored into reduced text file 11) arff-file-generation(); // arff-file-generation() is generated 12) arffGeneration(reduced-file, assemfile); 13) Outf(a) = model.arff; //arff file is generated 14) model-generation(); //Dataset is generated and then model is created 15) testing(); // testing is performed based on dataset 16) display(warning if malicious adware detected); Output: Warning-adware-detected

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B. Mathematical Model:

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CONCLUSION

This is an approach of using data mining and machine learning algorithm for the detection of malicious adware and display the warning to the user.It is actually an efficient way through which we can actually detect known as well as unknown adware. All the softwares are in executable form, so input to this system is an executable file. Which can be adware file or benign file. Then such executable files are converted into assembly code using N-dissasm. Opcodes from this assembly file are extracted to generate the instruction sequences of size 4-gram. This generated sequences are further passed from TF IDF algorithm for features extraction. Feature reduction is carried out

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International Journal of Engineering and Techniques - Volume 1 Issue 6, Nov – Dec 2015 using CPD algorithm. Then we generate ARFF file which is given input to Weka tool where actual algorithms are applies and model is generated. Then testing is carried out to produce warning if software consist adware in it. It was found that though adware is type of malware it was easily neglected but it causes threat to confidentiality issues by tracking users. browsing activities. So this System will help user to protect the confidentiality, availability and integrity of user by detecting known as well as unknown instances of adware. Temporally adjacent frames and then imposing original pixel values on the median filtered ones at detected regions. Initial results have better recovery of the blurring effect but quality of the processed video rely heavily on the performance of edge detection. Further research might be conducted to find better edge detection and maybe try with a combination method again to reduce the distortion.

VI.ACKNOWLEDGMENT It gives us great pleasure in presenting the preliminary project paper on ‘ADWARE DETECTION USING INSTRUCTION SEQUENCE GENERATION.’We would like to take this opportunity to thank our guide Prof. M. D. Shelar for giving all the help and guidance we needed. We are really grateful to them for theirkind support.Their valuable suggestions were very helpful.Our special thanks to Prof. R. H. Ambole and Prof. P. V. Madane for providing various resources such as laboratory with all needed software platforms, continuous Internet connection,for Our Project.In the end,we also grateful to Prof.S.S.Nandgaonkar, Head of Computer Engineering Department,VPCOE for her indispensable support,suggestions.

“Malicious Code Detection using Opcode Running Tree Representation.” in 2012 Ninth International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing. [4] Raja Khurram Shazhad, Syed Imran Haider, Niklas Lavesson “Detection of Spyware

by Mining Executable File” in International Conference on Availability, Reliabilityand Security in 2010.

[5] Matthew G. Schultz and Eleazar Eskin, Salvatore J. Stolfo, Erez Zadok “Data Mining Methods for Detection of New Malicious Executables”International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security in 2010.

[6] Matthew G. Schultz and Eleazar Eskin, Erez Zadok “Automated Spyware Detection using End User License Agreements” in International Conference on Information Security and Assurance in 2008.

[7] A. Sulaiman, K. Ramamoorthy, S. Mukkamala, A. H. Sung “Disassembled Code Analyzer for Malware (DCAM)” in Knowledge and Information Systems, vol.

26,no. 2, pp. 285-307, 2005 IEEE. [8] Sarah Gordon, “Fighting Spyware And Adware” in The Enterprises Journal, in 2005.

[9] Raja Khurram Shahzad, Niklas Lavesson “Detecting Scareware by Mining Variable Length Instruction Sequences” IEEE Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security.

[10] A. Sulaiman, K. Ramamoorthy, S. Mukkamala, Member, TEEE, and A. H. Sung,“Malware Examiner using Disassembled Code (MEDIC)” in 2005 lEEE Workshop on Information Assurance and Security United States MilitaryAcademy.

VII.REFERENCES [1] Raja Khurram Shahzad, Niklas Lavesson, Henric Johnson“Accurate Adware Detection using Opcode Sequence Extraction” in IEEE Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security.

[2] Zahra Bazrafshan, Hashem Hashemi, Seyed Mehdi Hazrati Fard, Ali Hamzeh“A Survey on Heuristic Malware Detection Techniques “in 2013 5th Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT).

[3] Xue Chenglong, Ding Yuxin, Dai Wei, Zhang Yibin

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