On the Approach of Static Feature Extraction in Trojans to Combat against Zero-Day Threats

Over the past few years, the enormous challenge ever faced by cyber space is to combat against cyber threats in the shape of malware attacks. Of these, Trojans stands out as the most common choice due to its deceptive and alluring properties. Most of the modern / sophisticated malwares are polymorphic in nature, thus signature / heuristics based techniques are becoming out of scope in outraging zero-day threats. By and large Trojan and its numerous variants have common static features which are always existent in such malwares. By exploiting this analogy, a set of features is determined by analyzing known samples which can be effectively plied for combating against zero-day attacks launched by means of unknown malicious codes.