A Comprehensive Study of Malware Propagation Using Geometric Progression

Abstract

This paper focuses to present malware propagation mathematically and it also shows how the population of malware grows in a well-defined ultra-large sized network. The propagation refers to entry of a malware to a system as well as copying malware from one device to another in networked environment. We assumed the network to be SNS. We have also discussed the closure properties used by malware while propagation. The properties are quite useful to detect and avoid malware. We have calculated the number of infected system in a geometrically progressed system without defense and modified the equation to calculate the number of infected system for practical network.