Topics

• Malware analysis
• Program patch analysis
• Adversarial machine learning attacks
• Container security
• Privacy protection

Team

• Dr Paul Black
• Dr Paul Pang,
• Dr Muhammad Usman,
• Tarek Chaalan (PhD student)
• Victor Jayakody (PhD student)
• Pooja Mishra  (Master of Computing)

Collaboration

• Abuse.ch
• Westpac Information Security Group
• A number of our research projects have been funded by the Australian government under the  Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making Initiative.

Projects

• Challenge  !5 "Dynamic Decision Making AI for Penetration Testing", AI4DM 2020 Phase I, Department of Defence, and the Office of National Intelligence, Outcome: "Cross Compiler Bipartite Vulnerability Search", $20,000
• Challenge 15, AI4DM 2020 Phase II, Build prototype vulnerability search software, $50,000
• Challenge 7, AI4DM 2022, Phase I, "Classification of Code Modifications to Differentiate Security Fixes and Learn Vulnerable Code Patterns in Compiled Software", $30,000

Demonstrations

• Malware Threat Intelligence Service
• Command and Control Emulator,  to support webinject research
• Malicious Advertising Monitor (Latrobe and Federation)

Publications

• P. Black, I.Gondal, R.Layton, "A Survey of Similarities in Banking Malware Behaviours", Computers and Security Journal, vol 77, Impact Factor 3.579, 2018
• P.Black, A. Bagirov, . Gondal, "Malware Variant Identification Using Incremental Clustering", Electronics Journal, Impact Factor 2.397,  2021
• P. Black, I. Gondal, "Cross Compiler Bipartite Vulnerable Function Search", Electronics Journal, Impact Factor 2.397, 2021