Ulrich Bayer

General Information

I was a PhD student in the automation group of the Vienna University of Technology while at the same time beeing employed by Secure Business Austria. My PhD advisors were Christopher Kruegel and Engin Kirda. My main research interest was malware analysis, with a particular emphasis on dynamic analysis. I graduated in January 2010.

Projects

I was the founder and main developer the Anubis project. Anubis is a platform for the dynamic, automated analysis of malware that evolved from my master's thesis. I have developed Anubis and maintained its server infrastructure for more than three years.

During my master's thesis I developed the TTAnalyze program. TTAnalyze is the predecessor of Anubis. It is a tool for automatically analyzing the behavior of Windows PE-executables with special focus on the analysis of malware. My master's thesis describes the design and implementation of TTAnalyze.

Contact

I can be reached under ulli at seclab.tuwien.ac.at.

Publications

Improving the Efficiency of Dynamic Malware Analysis
Ulrich Bayer, Engin Kirda, Christopher Kruegel
25th Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Information Security Research and Applications, Lusanne, Switzerland, March 2010
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Large-Scale Dynamic Malware Analysis
Ulrich Bayer
PhD Thesis, December 2009
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Insights Into Current Malware Behavior
Ulrich Bayer, Imam Habibi, Davide Balzarotti, Engin Kirda, and Christopher Kruegel
2nd USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET), Boston, MA, April 2009
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Scalable, Behavior-Based Malware Clustering
Ulrich Bayer, Paolo Milani, Clemens Hlauschek, Christopher Kruegel, and Engin Kirda
16th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2009), San Diego, February 2009
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Dynamic Analysis of Malicious Code
Ulrich Bayer, Andreas Moser, Christopher Kruegel, and Engin Kirda
Journal in Computer Virology, Springer Computer Science
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TTAnalyze: A Tool for Analyzing Malware
Ulrich Bayer, Christopher Kruegel, and Engin Kirda
15th European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR 2006) Annual Conference, Hamburg, Germany, April 2006 (Best Paper Award)
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TTAnalyze: A Tool for Analyzing Malware
Ulrich Bayer
Master's Thesis, December 2005
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