Assembling behavioural characteristics of malicious software

In this paper we present our approach to assembling characteristics of malware, which may be useful for another researchers, in case they face limitations of hardware and software resources during their work. Our research aims at exploring malware characteristics on high level of abstraction and finding how much abstract can the characteristics be to bring results. To pursue our goals, we needed to analyse great amount of malware samples. Unfortunately, we faced obstacles which did not allow us to effectively perform malware analysis for obtaining data we required. As a result, we came up with different approach for assembling data form malware analysis by employing online resources. The paper describes realization of our approach, which allowed us to assemble large amount of malware behavioural characteristics and utilise them in our research.