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Malicia Project

Malware in Cybercrime


At the core of most cybercrime operations is the attacker's ability to install malware on Internet-connected computers without the owner's informed consent. The goal of the MALICIA project is to study the crucial role of malware in cybercrime and the rise in recent years of an underground economy associated with malware.

Dataset Release

(2016/03/14) Due to the ageing of the dataset (3 years) and the students in this project graduating, we have decided to stop distributing the malware dataset.

Publications

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[Springer IJIS Journal] The MALICIA dataset: identification and analysis of drive-by download operations
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Antonio Nappa, M. Zubair Rafique, Juan Caballero.
In International Journal of Information Security, June 2014

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[NDSS 2014] CyberProbe: Towards Internet-Scale Active Detection of Malicious Servers
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Antonio Nappa, Zhaoyan Xu, M. Zubair Rafique, Juan Caballero, Guofei Gu .
In Proceedings of the 2014 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, CA, February, 2014

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[RAID 2013] FIRMA: Malware Clustering and Network Signature Generation with Mixed Network Behaviors.
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M. Zubair Rafique and Juan Caballero.
16th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, St. Lucia, October, 2013

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[DIMVA 2013] Driving in the Cloud:An Analysis of Drive-by Download Operations and Abuse Reporting
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Antonio Nappa, M. Zubair Rafique, Juan Caballero.
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment Berlin DE, July 2013.

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[ERCIM News 90] Understanding the Role of Malware in Cybercrime
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Juan Caballero
ERCIM News 90, July 2012.

Collaborations

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[S&P 2015] Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications
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Kurt Thomas, Elie Bursztein, Nav Jagpal, Moheeb Abu, Niels Provos, Paul Pearce, Grant Ho, Damon McCoy, Chris Grier, Vern Paxson, Antonio Nappa, Alexandros Kapravelos.
Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Jose, CA, May 2015.

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[CCS 2014] AutoProbe: Towards Automatic Active Malicious Server Probing Using Dynamic Binary Analysis
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Zhaoyan Xu, Antonio Nappa, Robert Baykov, Guangliang Yang, Juan Caballero Guofei Gu
Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Scottsdale, AZ, November 2014.

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[CCS 2012] Manufacturing Compromise: The Emergence of Exploit-as-a-Service
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Chris Grier, Lucas Ballard, Juan Caballero, Neha Chachra, Christian J. Dietrich, Kirill Levchenko, Panayiotis Mavrommatis, Damon McCoy, Antonio Nappa, Andreas Pitsillidis, Niels Provos, M. Zubair Rafique, Moheeb Abu Rajab, Christian Rossow, Kurt Thomas, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker.
Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security, Raleigh, NC, October 2012.

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[USENIX Security 2011] Measuring Pay-per-Install: The Commoditization of Malware Distribution
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Juan Caballero, Chris Grier, Christian Kreibich, and Vern Paxson.
Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium, San Francisco, CA, August 2011.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the European Union through Grant FP7-ICT No. 256980 and by the Spanish Government through Grant TIN2012-39391-C04-01 and a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship for Juan Caballero.