Abstract:
The origin of malware on the pc platform can be traced to the 1980s when two Pakistani brother tried to proof that the pc platform had
security flaws. Malware writers over the years have continued to find techniques to make the detection of their malware difficult. They moved from packing, to polymorphism and now to metamorphism just to make current detection systems ineffective. Literature suggests that there
have been quite a number of detection mechanisms proposed but still generate false positives. It is the aim of this paper to create a taxonomy of modern malware detection system to aid further research in the area of malware detection.
Keywords: Malware, packing, polymorphism, metamorphism
