Threat of renovated .NET viruses to mobile devices

Authors:
Jose Andre Morales
Affiliations:
Florida International University, Miami, Fl
Venue:
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Southeast Regional Conference on XX
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This research investigates the threat .NET viruses pose to mobile devices supporting the .NET Compact Framework. The focus is on (1) the feasibility of transforming, via renovation, a .NET virus to comply with the .NET Compact Framework and (2) deciding if the transformed virus can succeed in infecting a mobile device supporting the .NET Compact Framework. A formal model to identify non .NET CF compliant source code and to derive transformation rules is presented and characterized. The model was used to transform a test suite of .NET viruses to comply with the .NET Compact Framework. These transformed viruses successfully infected files on two mobile devices. Four desktop virus detectors were tested to detect the .NET viruses and their transformed versions. Three of the four did worse in detecting the transformed versions than on the original .NET version. The research shows that .NET viruses pose an apparent and realizable threat to mobile devices supporting the .NET Compact Framework.