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The Internet and local area networks, which connect many personal computers, are also facilitating the proliferation of malicious programs. Modern malware takes advantage of network services like e-mail and file sharing to proliferate. Existing simulation environments use biological models or their variants for explaining the patterns of proliferation of malicious programs. This paper aims to provide a framework that enables the modeling of security threats using multi agent systems. Multi Agent Systems Framework for Malware Modeling and Simulation (MASFMMS) provides a generic environment for modeling security weaknesses and their exploitation in a computer network. We present various scenarios of exploits that are prevalent in real life and show how they can be simulated in MASFMMS.
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Monga, R., Karlapalem, K. (2009). MASFMMS: Multi Agent Systems Framework for Malware Modeling and Simulation. In: David, N., Sichman, J.S. (eds) Multi-Agent-Based Simulation IX. MABS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5269. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01991-3_8
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