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On the trustworthiness of memory analysis—an empirical study from the perspective of binary execution

Prakash et al., 2014

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8673504760788346736
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Prakash A
Venkataramani E
Yin H
Lin Z
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IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

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Memory analysis serves as a foundation for many security applications such as memory forensics, virtual machine introspection and malware investigation. However, malware, or more specifically a kernel rootkit, can often tamper with kernel memory data, putting the …
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