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Study of a Stealthy, Direct Memory Access Based Malicious Software

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Detecting Peripheral-based Attacks on the Host Memory

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The arms race between malware developers and the anti-malware community reached a new level. Countermeasures for kernel level [60], hypervisor-based [77], and system management mode based malware [49] were proposed [25, 51, 107].

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    These devices can act as bus masters, see Sect. 2.5.

  2. 2.

    See http://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/index.shtml [accessed 25 February 2014].

  3. 3.

    See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg462988 [accessed 25 February 2014].

  4. 4.

    See http://www.wireshark.org/ [accessed 25 February 2014].

  5. 5.

    See http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/mamutu/ [accessed 25 February 2014].

  6. 6.

    We used the Performance API, that is available at http://icl.cs.utk.edu/papi/software/index.html [accessed 25 February 2014], to work with HPC in the described experiment.

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Stewin, P. (2015). Study of a Stealthy, Direct Memory Access Based Malicious Software. In: Detecting Peripheral-based Attacks on the Host Memory. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13515-1_4

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