Hardware-Assisted Malware Analysis

• Marcus Felipe Botacin
• Paulo Lício de Geus
• André Grégio

Resumo

Malicious software (malware) are persistent threats to modern computer systems and the development of countermeasures to them becomes harder each day due to the emergence of anti-analysis and anti-forensics techniques, able to evade software-based monitoring solutions. In this scenario, hardwareassisted solutions are effective alternatives, but still present development gaps. The presented dissertation surveyed the limits of software-based solutions, pinpointed the existing development gaps on hardware-assisted solutions and introduced a lightweight, hardware-based alternative for malware analysis. The developed framework was released as open-source and is being used on further research developments.