MAlSim - Mobile Agent Malware Simulator

Rafal Leszczyna; Igor Nai Fovino; Marcelo Masera

1st International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems

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MAlSim - Mobile Agent Malware Simulator

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2942,
    author={Rafal Leszczyna and Igor Nai Fovino and Marcelo Masera},
    title={MAlSim - Mobile Agent Malware Simulator},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={SIMUTOOLS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={ACM proceedings simulation security critical infrastructures mobile agents computer attacks malware},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2942}
}

Rafal Leszczyna
Igor Nai Fovino
Marcelo Masera
Year: 2010
MAlSim - Mobile Agent Malware Simulator
SIMUTOOLS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2942

Rafal Leszczyna¹^,*, Igor Nai Fovino¹^,*, Marcelo Masera¹^,*

1: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Via Enrico Fermi 2749 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy.

*Contact email: rafal.leszczyna@jrc.it, igor.nai@libero.it, marcelo.masera@jrc.it

Abstract

One of the problems related to the simulation of attacks against critical infrastructures is the lack of adequate tools for the simulation of malicious software (malware). Malware attacks are the most frequent in the Internet and they pose a serious threat against critical networked infrastructures. To address this issue we developed Mobile Agent Malware Simulator (MAlSim). The framework uses the technology of mobile agents and it aims at simulation of various types of malicious software (viruses, worms, malicious mobile code). Moreover it can be flexibly deployed over computer network of an arbitrary information system.

Keywords: ACM proceedings simulation security critical infrastructures mobile agents computer attacks malware

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ICST
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2008.2942