Foh9: The Face of Malware.

Friday, February 08, 2008

The Face of Malware.

Have you ever seen face of malware? Last week I read the news about Drawing a (Scary) Face on Malicious Software. The Romanian artist,Alex Dragulescucreated his so-called "threat art" in conjunction with live malware intercepted by e-mail security firm MessageLabs. He creates a variety of threat such as Malwarez, spam, and botnet ,etc.

Malwarez is a series of visualization of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code. For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in the data drive the configuration of the artificial organism.