Carter Yagemann

Carter Yagemann

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University with interests in automated vulnerability discovery, root cause analysis, exploit prevention, and cyber-physical security.

#malware Articles

Malware Has a Color

In an upcoming paper I plan to present some preliminary work in applying machine learning to program control flows to detect anomalies. Specifically, my coauthors and I demonstrate how to use this to analyze document malware with promising accuracy. In previous posts, I've detailed the threat malicious documents pose to …

Three Kinds of Document Malware and Designing Frameworks to Detect Them

Lately I've been spending a lot of time with document malware and exploring techniques for detection. Malicious documents pose interesting challenges and have become the typical first vector for adversaries to achieve a foothold. Despite this, document malware seems largely overlooked by academics compared to their executable counterparts. In short …