Detecting Industrial Control Malware Using Automated PLC Code Analytics

Saman Zonouz, Julian Rrushi, Stephen McLaughlin

IEEE Security & Privacy · 2014 · 81 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

The authors discuss their research on programmable logic controller (PLC) code analytics, which leverages safety engineering to detect and characterize PLC infections that target physical destruction of power plants. Their approach also draws on control theory, namely the field of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems, to reverse-engineer safety-critical code to identify complex and highly dynamic safety properties for use in the hybrid code analytics approach.

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