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Record W4321498612 · doi:10.9734/bpi/rhmcs/v6/18269d

Diving into Linux Malware: A Review

2023· review· en· W4321498612 on OpenAlexaff
Vikas Sharma

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typereview
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Malware Detection Techniques
Canadian institutionsConcordia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMalwareBotnetx86Computer scienceMalware analysisComputer securityCybercrimeOperating systemCryptovirologyThe InternetWorld Wide WebSoftware

Abstract

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Since a few decades ago, malicious programs for Windows-based operating systems have been a problem for the security industry around the world. The proliferation of embedded technology and the Internet of Things, however, has expanded dramatically along with technological advancement, which has caused a rapid shift in the malware environment. Embedded devices operate on a different architecture than personal computers, which still primarily use x86 or x64 architectures, making them considerably distinct from personal computers in this regard. The surge in the utilization of Linux or its variant has forced malicious actors to introduce "Linux Malwares". There is currently no systematic study attempting to classify, evaluate, and comprehend Linux malware that we are fully conscious of. The large percentage of resources on the topic are sparse reports, often published as blog posts, while the few systematic studies focused on the study of specific malware families (e.g., the Mirai botnet) primarily through network-level behavior, leaving the main obstacles of analyzing Linux malware unaddressed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.926
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.092
GPT teacher head0.418
Teacher spread0.326 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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