SoK: An Essential Guide For Using Malware Sandboxes In Security Applications: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned

arXiv:2403.16304v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Malware sandboxes provide many benefits for security applications, but they are complex. These complexities can overwhelm new users in different research areas and make it difficult to select, configure, and use sandboxes. Even worse, incorrectly using sandboxes can have a negative impact on security applications. In this paper, we address this knowledge gap by systematizing 84 representative papers for using x86/64 malware sandboxes in the academic literature. We propose a novel framework to simplify sandbox …

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