Abstract
Spam is usually used to propagate malware. Most spam leads to click the links or attached files by disguising it with social issues, entertainers, events, Christmas or New Year greetings, and friends using social engineering techniques. As a user clicks it, the user’s system is infected with malware. The infected systems can be used to various cyber-crimes. Recently such spam has been increased and that includes executable malware. In this paper, the results of the analysis of the malware attached in spam are presented.
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This research was supported by the MKE (The Ministry of Knowledge Economy), Korea, under the HNRC (Home Network Research Center)—TRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) (NIPA-2010-C1090-1011-0010).
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Im, E.G., Han, KS. (2012). An Analysis of Malware Attached in Spam. In: Kim, K., Ahn, S. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on IT Convergence and Security 2011. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 120. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2911-7_58
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