A Survey of Visualization Systems for Malware Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorWagner, Markusen_US
dc.contributor.authorFischer, Fabianen_US
dc.contributor.authorLuh, Roberten_US
dc.contributor.authorHaberson, Andreaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRind, Alexanderen_US
dc.contributor.authorKeim, Daniel A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorAigner, Wolfgangen_US
dc.contributor.editorR. Borgo and F. Ganovelli and I. Violaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-24T19:44:48Z
dc.date.available2015-05-24T19:44:48Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractDue to the increasing threat from malicious software (malware), monitoring of vulnerable systems is becoming increasingly important. The need to log and analyze activity encompasses networks, individual computers, as well as mobile devices. While there are various automatic approaches and techniques available to detect, identify, or capture malware, the actual analysis of the ever-increasing number of suspicious samples is a time-consuming process for malware analysts. The use of visualization and highly interactive visual analytics systems can help to support this analysis process with respect to investigation, comparison, and summarization of malware samples. Currently, there is no survey available that reviews available visualization systems supporting this important and emerging field. We provide a systematic overview and categorization of malware visualization systems from the perspective of visual analytics. Additionally, we identify and evaluate data providers and commercial tools that produce meaningful input data for the reviewed malware visualization systems. This helps to reveal data types that are currently underrepresented, enabling new research opportunities in the visualization community.en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersHumanities and Malwareen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationEurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) - STARsen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2312/eurovisstar.20151114en_US
dc.identifier.pages105-125en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.2312/eurovisstar.20151114en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Associationen_US
dc.subjectH.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]en_US
dc.subjectUser Interfacesen_US
dc.subjectGraphical user interfacesen_US
dc.subjectI.3.8 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectApplicationsen_US
dc.subjectK.6.5 [Management Of Computing And Information Systems]en_US
dc.subjectSecurity and Protectionen_US
dc.subjectInvasive softwareen_US
dc.titleA Survey of Visualization Systems for Malware Analysisen_US
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