{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/malware-multiverse-from-automatic-logic-bomb","title":"Malware MultiVerse: From Automatic Logic Bomb Identification to Automatic Patching and Tracing","arxiv_id":"2109.06127","date":"2021-09-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Marcus Botacin","André Grégio"],"abstract":"Malware and other suspicious software often hide behaviors and components behind logic bombs and context-sensitive execution paths. Uncovering these is essential to react against modern threats, but current solutions are not ready to detect these paths in a completely automated manner. To bridge this gap, we propose the Malware Multiverse (MalVerse), a solution able to inspect multiple execution paths via symbolic execution aiming to discover function inputs and returns that trigger malicious behaviors. MalVerse automatically patches the context-sensitive functions with the identified symbolic values to allow the software execution in a traditional sandbox. We implemented MalVerse on top of angr and evaluated it with a set of Linux and Windows evasive samples. We found that MalVerse was able to generate automatic patches for the most common evasion techniques (e.g., ptrace checks).","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06127v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.06127v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"malware-multiverse-from-automatic-logic-bomb","repo_url":"https://github.com/marcusbotacin/malverse","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}