Developing malware evaluation infrastructure

Malware evaluation is a key factor in security. It supposed to be safe and accurate. The contemporary malware is very sophisticated. Usually it uses complex distributed infrastructure an investigation of which is a very challenging task. In the paper, the development of the testbeds toward malware and its infrastructure evaluation is presented. Based on the real-life experience with the subsequent CryptoWall generations analysis, the MESS evaluation system is introduced. A rich set of analytical results is discussed. A new methods of visualization for malware artefacts analysis are given.