WORMULATOR: A SIMULATOR FOR RAPIDLY SPREADING MALWARE
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This project addresses the need for an application level simulator to simulate Internet-wide phenomenon such as flash worms, botnets, Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, etc. There are many network simulators intended for parallel and distributed simulation, but most are designed to simulate low level communication protocols such as TCP/IP. The desire to simulate rapidly spreading malware for research and teaching purposes lead us to explore the Spamulator, which was designed to simulate spam email on an Internet-wide scale. The Spamulator was developed by a team at the University of Calgary. It is a lightweight, application level simulator, which implements limited set of features of the Internet. In this project, the Spamulator is enhanced with the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to simulate UDP worms. The modified version of the
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it