Hardware-assisted malware detection for embedded systems

Abstract

The growth of cyber infrastructures made computer security to be critically important. With that, malware detection is still currently one of the most difficult problems with the increasing threats year after year, as well as a variety of them. As such, this report will be discussing about the purpose of this project, whereby malware detection that are based on low level features, Hardware Performance Counters (HPC) will be used to observe and identify malware between benign and malicious programs, as well as discussing on methods that can be used to overcome this issue.