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The ominous threat from malware in critical systems has forced system designers to include detection techniques in their systems to ensure a timely response. However, the widely used signature-based techniques implemented to detect the multitude of potential malware in these systems also leads to a large non-functional overhead. Such methods do not lend well to the extremely resource constrained IoT devices. Hence, in this paper, we propose a low complexity signature-based method for IoT devices that only identifies and stores a subset of signatures to detect a group of malware instead of storing a separate signature for every potential malware, as done in the existing work. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can still achieve 100% detection rate while relying on a very low number of signatures for detection.
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Abbas, M.F.B., Srikanthan, T. (2017). Low-Complexity Signature-Based Malware Detection for IoT Devices. In: Batten, L., Kim, D., Zhang, X., Li, G. (eds) Applications and Techniques in Information Security. ATIS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 719. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5421-1_15
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