Lux0R

Abstract

JavaScript is a dynamic programming language adopted in a variety of applications, including web pages, PDF Readers, widget engines, network platforms, office suites. Given its widespread presence throughout different software platforms, JavaScript is a primary tool for the development of novel -rapidly evolving- malicious exploits. If the classical signature- and heuristic-based detection approaches are clearly inadequate to cope with this kind of threat, machine learning solutions proposed so far suffer from high false-alarm rates or require special instrumentation that make them not suitable for protecting end-user systems.