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    This document provides a 1st progress report on a paper about ransomware detection. The author chose to review the paper "UNVEIL: A Large-Scale, Automated Approach to Detecting Ransomware" because ransomware attacks have been rising and existing solutions do not specifically target ransomware. The paper was published in 2016 by researchers from Northeastern University who developed a new dynamic technique called UNVEIL to detect ransomware. UNVEIL was tested on over 148,000 malware samples and correctly identified 13,637 ransomware samples with no false positives, including an unknown ransomware family. It also outperformed existing antivirus scanners.

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    1st Progress Report


    Aroosha Pervaiz DCIS, PIEAS
    Nilore, Pakistan
    arooshapervaiz@outlook.com

    Abstract
    This document provides a report on the reasons why the topic was chosen, to whom it belongs and what are my target dates.

    Index Terms
    ransomware, intrusions, defense, security

    I. I NTRODUCTION
    I have chosen a paper from cybersecutiy domain, because that is what interests me the most. The paper that I specifically chose
    to review is named “UNVEIL: A Large-Scale, Automated Approach to Detecting Ransomware.” The reason behind choosing
    this paper specifically is because from the last few years, there has been a rise in the incidents related to marked ransomware
    attacks. There are many proposed solutions to malwares, but none of these solution specifically apply to ransomware. We need
    a solution that can effectively target ransonware. It also needs to automatically and dynamically report it while taking measures
    to ensure that we have a safety backup. This is where UNVEIL comes into play.

    II. D ETAILS ON AUTHORS


    To address the scarcity of the solutions available for ransomware specifically, a team of researchers belonging Northeastern
    University in Boston presented a new, dynamic technique for the detection of ransomware. This was proposed at the 25th
    Usenix Security Symposium in Austin, Texas. They published their methodology in a paper called Unveil[1], and they report
    that it’s proven to be highly effective in testing. This paper was publishes in The 25th USENIX Security Symposium journal
    in 2016.

    III. S OLUTION ’ S U SEFULNESS


    Unveil was tested against 148,223 malware samples. It managed to correctly picked out 13,637 ransomware samples. Another
    breakthrough is that there were not any false positives, according to the group’s research paper. Unveil was even able to pic
    out what was an unknown ransomware family, called SilentCrypt, that was able to bypass the sandboxing technology of a
    ”well-known anti-malware company.” Unveil also succesfully outperformed all the existing AV scanners and technologies using
    sandoxing techniques.

    R EFERENCES
    [1] Kharaz, A., Arshad, S., Mulliner, C., Robertson, W., Kirda, E. (2016, August). UNVEIL: A Large-Scale, Automated Approach to Detecting Ransomware.
    25th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 16), 757–772. Retrieved from https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity16/technical-
    sessions/presentation/kharaz

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