Swarm Malware

Abstract

The goal of this work is to outline a structure and a behaviour of a hypothetical swarm malware. To show, how to map, and walk the file system of a casual OS using a swarm intelligence. The information is stored in a form of a complex network, which, during their life, create individual virus instances. The network has certain properties associated with its structure that benefit virus instances to visit files more interesting to infect or it could be used by a hacker himself. On the other hand, a swarm malware could also be used for a defence against similar threads or it could be used for study of its behaviour. As the work shows, the swarm behaviour pattern could be incorporated, if it had not been yet, to a malware, and analysed for a future protection.