IEEE

Obfuscated JavaScript Code Detection using Machine Learning with AST-based Syntactic and Lexical Analysis

Abstract: Obfuscation has become a popular technique used by attackers to hide malicious code in JavaScript applications. The detection of obfuscated code in JavaScript is a challenging task. A survey ...
IEEE

JSObfusDetector: A binary PSO-based one-class classifier ensemble to detect obfuscated JavaScript code

Abstract: JavaScript code obfuscation has become a major technique used by malware writers to evade static analysis techniques. Over the past years, a number of dynamic analysis techniques have been ...
ZDNet

Hackers are disguising their malicious JavaScript code with a hard-to-beat trick

Over 25% of malicious JavaScript code is obfuscated by so-called 'packers', a software packaging method that has given attackers a way of evading signature-based detection, according to security and ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Obfuscated Javascript malware making a comeback

Obfuscated (hidden) Javascript attacks were popular among criminal hackers a couple of years ago, and were widely reported by several vendors, who developed heuristic scanning solutions to counter the ...
Bleeping Computer

About 26% of all malicious JavaScript threats are obfuscated

A research that analyzed over 10,000 samples of diverse malicious software written in JavaScript concluded that roughly 26% of it is obfuscated to evade detection and analysis. Obfuscation is when ...