Malicious Linux Binaries: A Landscape

Resumo

Linux applications are finding their role on important computer systems. As their use grow, they become target for malware. Therefore, understanding the security impacts of malware infections on them is essential to allow system hardening and countermeasures development. In this paper, we evaluate malicious ELF binaries to present a landscape of current threats. We discuss the challenges and pitfalls of analyzing samples on this platform and compare the identified behaviors to the ones presented by other platforms' samples.