TENTACLE: Environment-Sensitive Malware Palpation

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Recently, a malware is constantly growing which forces malware analyst in hard work. An automated malware analysis can helps to security engineers, but some malware cannot be run in a sandbox environment. For example, sophisticated malware such as the Citadel and Zeus/GameOver are armed with anti-sandbox techniques to prevent running except on an infected host. These malware detects the execution environment and do not engage in malicious behavior when the current host differs from the infected host. In this presentation, I present an automatically disarmament system for armed malware with anti-sandboxing. The system targets on 1) Host-fingerprinting malware like citadel, 2) armed malware with general anti-sandboxng for automated sandbox analyzer. An approach of disarmament focuses on exit reason and exit before activity in malware execution. I have developing CPU emulator-based disarmament system with instrumentation. The system suggests a suitable environment for dynamic analysis for individual malware.