Publications
Conferences
Dalla Preda, M., Feng, W., Giacobazzi, R., Greechie, R., & Lakhotia, A. (2012). Twisting Additivity in Program Obfuscation. In S. Dua, A. Gangopadhyay, P. Thulasiraman, U. Straccia, M. Shepherd, & B. Stein (Eds.), Information Systems, Technology and Management (pp. 336–347). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-29166-1_30 Cite
Singh, P. K., Moinuddin, M., & Lakhotia, A. (2003). Using static analysis and verification for analyzing virus and worm programs. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Information Warfare and Security (pp. 281–292). Cite
Lakhotia, A. (1998). DIME: a direct manipulation environment for evolutionary development of software. In , 6th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, 1998. IWPC ’98. Proceedings (pp. 72–79). https://doi.org/10.1109/WPC.1998.693289 Cite Download
Harman, M., Lakhotia, A., & Binkley, D. W. (2006). A Framework for Static Slicers of Unstructured Programs. Information and Software Technology, 48(7), 549–565. Retrieved from http://calcium.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/329/ Cite
Lakhotia, A. (1993). Rule-based approach to computing module cohesion. In , 15th International Conference on Software Engineering, 1993. Proceedings (pp. 35–44). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.1993.346057 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A., & Deprez, J.-C. (1999). Restructuring functions with low cohesion. In Sixth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 1999. Proceedings (pp. 36–46). https://doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.1999.806945 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A. (1993). Constructing Call Multigraphs Using Dependence Graphs. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (pp. 273–284). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/158511.158647 Cite Download
Karim, M. E., Walenstein, A., Lakhotia, A., & Parida, L. (2005). Malware phylogeny using maximal pi-patterns. In EICAR 2005 Conference: Best Paper Proceedings (pp. 156–174). Retrieved from http://www.researchgate.net/publication/228640414_Malware_Phylogeny_Using_Maximal_Patterns/file/d912f50f9cc467ab89.pdf Cite Download
Deprez, J.-C., & Lakhotia, A. (2000). A formalism to automate mapping from program features to code. In 8th International Workshop on Program Comprehension, 2000. Proceedings. IWPC 2000 (pp. 69–78). https://doi.org/10.1109/WPC.2000.852481 Cite Download
Goel, S. (2008). 3rd Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA’08). Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.295.9837&rep=rep1&type=pdf Cite Download
Boccardo, D. R., Lakhotia, A., Manacero Jr, A., & Venable, M. (2009). Adapting call-string approach for x86 obfuscated binaries. Simpósio Brasileiro Em Seguran\cca Da Informa\ccao e de Sistemas Computacionais. Retrieved from http://www.lbd.dcc.ufmg.br/colecoes/sbseg/2009/011.pdf Cite Download
Eric, U. K., Kapoor, A., & Lakhotia, A. (2005). DOC–ANSWERING THE HIDDEN “CALL” OF A VIRUS. Virus Bulletin, 4, 8–10. Retrieved from http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/papers/detecting-obfuscated-calls-VB2005.pdf Cite Download
Walenstein, A., Mathur, R., Chouchane, M., & Lakhotia, A. (2007). The design space of metamorphic malware. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on i-Warfare & Security (ICIW) (pp. 241–248). Cite
Lakhotia, A., Boccardo, D. R., Singh, A., & Manacero,Jr., A. (2010). Context-sensitive Analysis of Obfuscated x86 Executables. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (pp. 131–140). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1706356.1706381 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A., & Mohammed, M. (2004). Imposing order on program statements to assist anti-virus scanners. In 11th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2004. Proceedings (pp. 161–170). https://doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2004.24 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A., Kapoor, A., & Kumar, E. U. (2004). Are metamorphic viruses really invincible. Virus Bulletin, 5–7. Retrieved from http://www.iscas2007.org/~arun/papers/invincible-complete.pdf Cite Download
Venable, M., Chouchane, M. R., Karim, M. E., & Lakhotia, A. (2005). Analyzing Memory Accesses in Obfuscated x86 Executables. In K. Julisch & C. Kruegel (Eds.), Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment (pp. 1–18). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11506881_1 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A., & Kumar, E. U. (2004). Abstracting stack to detect obfuscated calls in binaries. In Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, 2004 (pp. 17–26). https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM.2004.2 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A., & Walenstein, A. (n.d.). A Self-Learning AV Scanner. Retrieved from http://web.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/papers/2008-avar-self-learning.pdf Cite Download
Singh, A., Walenstein, A., & Lakhotia, A. (2012). Tracking Concept Drift in Malware Families. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Security and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 81–92). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2381896.2381910 Cite Download
Walenstein, A., & Lakhotia, A. (2007). The software similarity problem in malware analysis. Internat. Begegnungs-und Forschungszentrum für Informatik. Retrieved from http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2007/964/ Cite Download
Lakhotia, A. (2006). Analysis of Adversarial Code: Problem, Challenges, Results. Blackhat Federal 2006. Cite Download
Chouchane, M. R., & Lakhotia, A. (2006). Using Engine Signature to Detect Metamorphic Malware. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode (pp. 73–78). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/1179542.1179558 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A., Preda, M. D., & Giacobazzi, R. (2013). Fast Location of Similar Code Fragments Using Semantic “Juice.” In Proceedings of the 2Nd ACM SIGPLAN Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop (pp. 5:1–5:6). New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2430553.2430558 Cite Download
Walenstein, A., Hayes, M., & Lakhotia, A. (2007). Phylogenetic Comparisons of Malware. In Virus Bulletin Conference (Vol. 39, p. 41). Cite Download
Walenstein, A., Mathur, R., Chouchane, M. R., & Lakhotia, A. (2008). Constructing malware normalizers using term rewriting. Journal in Computer Virology, 4(4), 307–322. Cite
Chouchane, M. R., Walenstein, A., & Lakhotia, A. (2008). Using Markov Chains to filter machine-morphed variants of malicious programs. In Malicious and Unwanted Software, 2008. MALWARE 2008. 3rd International Conference on (pp. 77–84). Cite
Charles LeDoux, Arun Lakhotia, Craig Miles, Vivek Notani, & Avi Pfeffer. (2013). FuncTracker: Discovering Shared Code to Aid Malware Forensics Extended Abstract. Presented at the 6th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET ’13). Retrieved from https://www.usenix.org/conference/leet13/functracker-discovering-shared-code-to-aid-malware-forensics Cite Download
Walenstein, A., & Lakhotia, A. (2012). A transformation-based model of malware derivation. In 2012 7th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALWARE) (pp. 17–25). https://doi.org/10.1109/MALWARE.2012.6461003 Cite Download
Charles LeDoux, Michael Sharkey, Brandon Primeaux, & Craig Miles. (2012). Instruction embedding for improved obfuscation. In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Southeast Regional Conference (pp. 130–135). Retrieved from http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2184543 Cite Download
Charles LeDoux, Andrew Walenstein, & Arun Lakhotia. (2012). Improved Malware Classification through Sensor Fusion Using Disjoint Union. In Information Systems, Technology and Management (pp. 360–371). Grenoble, France: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29166-1_32 Cite Download
Journals
Harman, M., Lakhotia, A., & Binkley, D. (2006). Theory and algorithms for slicing unstructured programs. Information and Software Technology, 48(7), 549–565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2005.06.001 Cite Download
Chan, T. W., & Lakhotia, A. (1998). Debugging program failure exhibited by voluminous data. Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, 10(2), 111–150. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-908X(199803/04)10:2<111::AID-SMR167>3.0.CO;2-8 Cite
Lakhotia, A., & Deprez, J.-C. (1998). Restructuring programs by tucking statements into functions. Information and Software Technology, 40(11–12), 677–689. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0950-5849(98)00091-3 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A., Boccardo, D. R., Singh, A., & Jr, A. M. (2010). Context-sensitive analysis without calling-context. Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 23(3), 275–313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10990-011-9080-1 Cite
Lakhotia, A., Kumar, E. U., & Venable, M. (2005). A method for detecting obfuscated calls in malicious binaries. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 31(11), 955–968. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2005.120 Cite Download
Chouchane, R., Stakhanova, N., Walenstein, A., & Lakhotia, A. (2013). Detecting machine-morphed malware variants via engine attribution. Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, 9(3), 137–157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11416-013-0183-6 Cite Download
Hayes, M., Walenstein, A., & Lakhotia, A. (2009). Evaluation of malware phylogeny modelling systems using automated variant generation. Journal in Computer Virology, 5(4), 335–343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11416-008-0100-6 Cite Download
Karim, M. E., Walenstein, A., Lakhotia, A., & Parida, L. (2005). Malware phylogeny generation using permutations of code. Journal in Computer Virology, 1(1–2), 13–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11416-005-0002-9 Cite Download
Lakhotia, A., Walenstein, A., Miles, C., & Singh, A. (2013). VILO: a rapid learning nearest-neighbor classifier for malware triage. Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques, 9(3), 109–123. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11416-013-0178-3 Cite Download
Miles, C., Lakhotia, A., & Walenstein, A. (2012). In situ reuse of logically extracted functional components. Journal in Computer Virology, 8(3), 73–84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11416-012-0167-y Cite Download
Theses and Dissertations
Notani, V. (2009). Behavioral Analysis of Malware (Bachelor’s Thesis). BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Retrieved from http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/papers/2013-vivek-notani-thesis.pdf Cite Download
Nandigam, J. (1995). A measure for module cohesion (PhD Dissertation). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.61.6490&rep=rep1&type=pdf Cite Download
Singh, P. K. (2002). A Physiological Decomposition of Virus and Worm Programs (Master’s thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://www.megasecurity.org/papers/masterthesis.pdf Cite Download
Deprez, J.-C. (1997). Detecting Ripple Effects of Program Modifications on a Software System’s Functionality (PhD Dissertation). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/papers/2003-jean-christophe-dissertation.pdf Cite Download
Mohammed, M. (n.d.). Zeroing in on Metamorphic Computer Viruses (Master’s thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/papers/moin-mohammed-thesis-dec2003.pdf Cite Download
Kumar, E. U. (2004). Abstract Stack Graph as a Representation to Detect Obfuscated Calls in Binaries (Master’s thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/papers/uday-kumar-thesis-dec2004.pdf Cite Download
Mathur, R. (2006). Normalizing metamorphic malware using term rewriting (Master’s thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://web.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/papers/2006-rachit-thesis.pdf Cite Download
Puntambekar, A. (2006). Terrain modeling and obstacle detection for unmanned autonomous ground robots (Master’s thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://cajunbot.com/papers/2006-amit-thesis_-_terrain_mapping_and_obstacle_detection_for_unmanned_autonomous_ground_robots_without_sensor_stabilization.pdf Cite Download
Hayes, M. E. (2008). Simulating malware evolution for evaluating program phylogenies (Master’s thesis). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Cite
Chouchane, M. R. (2008). Approximate Detection of Machine-morphed Variants of Malicious Programs (PhD Dissertation). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Cite
Golconda, S. (2010). CajunBot Path Planner Architecture for Autonomous Ground Vehicles in an Urban Environment (PhD Dissertation). University of Louisiana. Retrieved from http://www.iscas2007.org/~arun/papers/2010-Golconda-dissertation.pdf Cite Download
Golconda, S. (2005). Steering control for a skid-steered autonomous ground vehicle at varying speed (Maste). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Retrieved from http://cajunbot.com/papers/2005_02-steering_control_for_a_skid-steered_autonomous_ground_vehicle_at_varying_speed.pdf.pdf Cite Download
Singh, A. (2012). On Concept Drift, Deployability, and Adversarial Selection in Machine Learning-based Malware Detection. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Cite
Deprez, J.-C. (1997). A context-sensitive formal transformation for restructuring programs. University of Southwestern Louisiana. Retrieved from http://web.cacs.louisiana.edu/~arun/papers/jcd-thesis.pdf Cite Download
Karim, M. E. (2007). MinMax Interval Trees. ProQuest. Cite
Boccardo, D. R. (2009). Context-Sensitive Analysis of x86 Obfuscated Executables [Tese / Thesis]. Retrieved January 6, 2014, from http://xrepo01s.inmetro.gov.br/handle/10926/1069 Cite Download
Charles LeDoux. (2011). Feature Fusion Across Domains for Improved Malware Classification (Masters). University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Cite Download