how malware distribute sites work
How do malware spread through websites? Methods of Malware and Virus Infection and Spread Downloading infected files as email attachments, from websites or through filesharing activities . Clicking on links to malicious websites in emails, messaging apps or social network posts. Using a bottom-up approach, telemetry data from commercial Anti-Malware (AM) clients running on millions of computers first identify malware distribution sites hosting malicious executables on the web. Next, traversing hyperlinks in a web graph constructed from a commercial search engine crawler in the reverse direction quickly discovers malware landing pages linking to the malware distribution sites. In addition, the malicious distribution sites and web graph are used to identify neighborhoods of malware, locate additional executables distributed on the internet which may be unknown malware and identify false positives in AM signatures. We compare the malicious URLs generated by the proposed method with those ...