MASFMMS: Multi Agent Systems Framework for Malware Modeling and Simulation

The Internet and local area networks, which connect many personal computers, are also facilitating the proliferation of malicious programs. Modern malware takes advantage of network services like e-mail and file sharing to proliferate. Existing simulation environments use biological models or their variants for explaining the patterns of proliferation of malicious programs. This paper aims to provide a framework that enables the modeling of security threats using multi agent systems. Multi Agent Systems Framework for Malware Modeling and Simulation (MASFMMS) provides a generic environment for modeling security weaknesses and their exploitation in a computer network. We present various scenarios of exploits that are prevalent in real life and show how they can be simulated in MASFMMS.