Using Malware Self-Defence Mechanism to Harden Defence and Remediation Tools

TL;DR

This paper proposes leveraging malware's resilience techniques to enhance and harden cybersecurity defense and remediation tools, demonstrated through experimental validation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach of applying malware resilience strategies to improve the robustness of defense tools against sophisticated threats.

Findings

Malware resilience techniques can be adapted to strengthen defense tools.

Experimental results show increased robustness of hardened tools.

The approach effectively counters malware evasion tactics.

Abstract

Malware are becoming a major problem to every individual and organization in the cyber world. They are advancing in sophistication in many ways. Besides their advanced abilities to penetrate and stay evasive against detection and remediation, they have strong resilience mechanisms that are defying all attempts to eradicate them. Malware are also attacking defence of the systems and making them defunct. When defences are brought down, the organisation or individual will lose control over the IT assets and defend against the Malware perpetuators. In order to gain the capability to defend, it is necessary to keep the defences or remediation tools active and not defunct. Given that Malware have proven to be resilient against deployed defences and remediation tools, the proposed research advocates to utilize the techniques used by Malware to harden the tools in a similar manner. In this paper, it is demonstrated that the proposition of using Malware resilient designs can be applied to harden the tools through experiments.