Spatio-temporal mining of software adoption & penetration

• Published in: 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013) pp. 878 - 885
• Main Authors: Papalexakis, Evangelos E., Dumitras, Tudor, Duen Horng Chau, Prakash, B. Aditya, Faloutsos, Christos
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: ACM and IEEE 01.08.2013
• Subjects: Data Analysis; Data models; Extrapolation; Internet; Internet Security; Malware; Malware Propagation; Software

How does malware propagate? Does it form spikes over time? Does it resemble the propagation pattern of benign files, such as software patches? Does it spread uniformly over countries? How long does it take for a URL that distributes malware to be detected and shut down? In this work, we answer these...