Presentation 2016-03-04
A fast detecting method for obfuscated malicious JavaScript based on text pattern analysis
Jiawei Su, Katsunari Yoshioka, Junji Shikata, Tsutomu Matsumoto,
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Abstract(in English) The malicious JavaScript is a common springboard for attackers to launch several types of network attacks, such as Drive-by-Download and malicious PDF delivery attacks. In order to elude detection of signature matching, malicious JavaScript is always packed (so-called “obfuscation”) with diversified algorithms therefore the occurrence of obfuscation is always a good pointer for potential maliciousness. In this investigation, we propose a light – weight approach for quickly filtering obfuscated JavaScript based on a novel approach of tokenizing JavaScript text at letter level and information-theoretic measure, based on the previous work in the domain of detecting obfuscated malicious code as well as the pattern analysis of natural languages. The new approach is obviously time efficient compared to existing systems since it processes much less objects while we also proved that the approach could also reach the acceptable detection accuracies.
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Keyword(in English) Text ClassificationObfuscated JavaScriptInformation theoretic measuresfeature selectionnovelty detection
Paper # ICSS2015-58
Date of Issue 2016-02-25 (ICSS)

Conference Information
Committee ICSS / IPSJ-SPT
Conference Date 2016/3/3(2days)
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Place (in English) Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University
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Topics (in English) Information and Communication System Security, etc.
Chair Yutaka Miyake(KDDI R&D Labs.)
Vice Chair Takashi Nishide(Univ. of Tsukuba) / Yoshiaki Shiraishi(Kobe Univ.)
Secretary Takashi Nishide(Mitsubishi Electric) / Yoshiaki Shiraishi(NII)
Assistant Katsunari Yoshioka(Yokohama National Univ.) / Kazunori Kamiya(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Information and Communication System Security / Special Interest Group on Security Psychology and Trust
Language ENG
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Title (in English) A fast detecting method for obfuscated malicious JavaScript based on text pattern analysis
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Text ClassificationObfuscated JavaScriptInformation theoretic measuresfeature selectionnovelty detection
1st Author's Name Jiawei Su
1st Author's Affiliation Yokohama National University(YNU)
2nd Author's Name Katsunari Yoshioka
2nd Author's Affiliation Yokohama National University(YNU)
3rd Author's Name Junji Shikata
3rd Author's Affiliation Yokohama National University(YNU)
4th Author's Name Tsutomu Matsumoto
4th Author's Affiliation Yokohama National University(YNU)
Date 2016-03-04
Paper # ICSS2015-58
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) ICSS-488
Page pp.pp.65-70(ICSS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-02-25 (ICSS)