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Malicons: detecting payload in favicons

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A recent version of the “Vawtrak” malware used steganography to hide the addresses of the command and control channels in favicons: small images automatically downloaded by the web browser. Since almost all research in steganalysis focuses on natural images, we study how well these methods can detect secret messages in favicons. The study is performed on a large corpus of favicons downloaded from the internet and applies a number of state-of-art steganalysis techniques, as well as proposing v...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.8.MWSF-079

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
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Cisco Systems, Inc. More from this funder
Publisher:
Ingentaconnect Publisher's website
Host title:
Electronic Imaging: Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics 2016
Journal:
Electronic Imaging: Media Watermarking, Security, and Forensics 2016 Journal website
Issue:
2016
Pages:
1-9
Publication date:
2016-02-14
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pubs:602187
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uuid:895a0272-412f-4a64-ba07-70c2c497dd88
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pubs:602187
Source identifiers:
602187
Deposit date:
2016-02-13

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