Development of Zero-Day Vulnerability Detection Methods

Student: Stoliarov Vladislav

Supervisor: Petr Baranov

Educational Programme: Information Security Management (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

Remote code execution as a result of exploiting various software vulnerabilities is one of the most effective ways to distribute malicious software. Exploits are often used in targeted attacks, to create and distribute botnets and worms, viruses, ransomware and trojans. Despite the fact that modern operating systems constantly apply and improve technology to prevent the exploitation of entire classes of such vulnerabilities, their number increases every year. In this paper, the problem of detecting malicious software exploiting the "memory corruption" vulnerabilities for performing malicious activity and further distribution is considered.

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