Don’t Look Now! Malicious Image Spam

Don’t Look Now! Malicious Image Spam

A picture is worth a thousand words. I've also found it contains malware and other interesting items if one looks past the wavy words, pills, sailboats and pornography. I have a corpus of more than 10,000 spam images provided daily by Knujon over a period of about 5 years. I've had students categorize the images, perform steganalysis, and extract malware. Images have their own unique methods to evade spam filters. This talk is about my corpus and the things we've found lurking in the wild.

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