Publications

Papers

Besides a Ph.D. thesis, Dr. Bontchev has written several scientific papers about computer viruses. Some of them are listed below.

1991

The Bulgarian and Soviet Virus Factories

Bontchev, V. Proc. 1^st Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 1991, pp. 11–25.

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Computer Anti-Malware Certification. A Proposal

Bontchev, V., Brunnstein, K., Swimmer, M. Proc. 1st Int. NCSA Anti-Virus Product Developpers Conf., 1991.

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1992

Possible Virus Attacks Against Integrity Programs and How to Prevent Them

Bontchev, V. Proc. 2^nd Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 1992, pp. 131–141.

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Methods and Requirements for Quality Assessment of AntiVirus Products

Bontchev, V., Brunnstein, K., Jahn, W-D. Proc. 1^st Annual EICAR Conf., 1992.

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Made in Bulgaria

Bontchev, V. Virus News International, July, 1992, pp. 41–46.

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1993

Analysis and Maintenance of a Clean Virus Library

Bontchev, V. Proc. 3^rd Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 1993, pp. 77–89.

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MtE Detection Test

Bontchev, V. Virus News International, January, 1993, pp. 26–34.

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1994

Future Trends in Virus Writing

Bontchev, V. 4^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 1994, pp. 65–82.

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Are ‘Good’ Computer Viruses Still a Bad Idea?

Bontchev, V. Proc. EICAR’94 Conf., pp. 25–47.

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1995

‘Vircing’ the InVircible

Bontchev, V. Also on cryptohub.nl

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1996

Possible Macro Virus Attacks and How to Prevent Them

Bontchev, V. Proc. 6^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 1996, pp. 97–127.

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1997

Macro Virus Identification Problems

Bontchev, V. Proc. 7^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 1997, pp. 175–196.

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Veni, Vidi, Vicis?

Bontchev, V. Virus Bull., October, 1997, pp. 10–11.

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1998

The Pros and Cons of WordBasic Virus Upconversion

Bontchev, V. Proc. 8^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 1998, pp. 153–172.

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No Peace on the Excel Front

Bontchev, V. Virus Bull., April, 1998, pp. 16–17.

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1999

The WildList – Still Useful?

Bontchev, V. Proc. 9^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 1999, pp. 281–287.

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2000

Solving the VBA Upconversion Problem

Bontchev, V. Proc. 10^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 2000, pp. 273–299.

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Latest Macro Virus Developments and Future Trends

Bontchev, V. Proc. 1^st AVAR Conf., 2000, Tokyo, Japan, in print.

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2001

The Responsibilities of the Anti-Virus Researcher

Bontchev, V. Proc. 2^nd AVAR Conf., 2001, Hong Kong, pp. 13–28.

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2002

Anatomy of a Virus Epidemic

Bontchev, V. Proc. 12^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 2002, pp. 389–406.

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Macro and Script Virus Polymorphism

Bontchev, V., Tocheva, K. Proc. 3^rd AVAR Conf., 2002, Seoul, Korea, pp. 1–31.

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2004

Cryptographic and Cryptanalytic Methods Used in Computer Viruses and Anti-Virus Software

Bontchev, V. RSA Conference, 2004, Tokyo.

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Anti-Virus Spamming and the Virus Naming Mess

Bontchev, V. Virus Bull., June, 2004, pp. 9–11 (Part 1) and July, 2004, pp. 13–15 (Part 2).

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2005

The Three Faces of VBA

Bontchev, V. Virus Bull., January, 2005, pp. 12–18 (Part 1) and February, 2005, pp. 4–6 (Part 2).

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Current Status of the CARO Malware Naming Scheme

Bontchev, V. Proc. 15^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 2005, pp. 156–170.

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2006

SymbOS Malware Classification Problems

Bontchev, V. Proc. 16^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 2006, pp. 216–226.

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Math Baloney

Bontchev, V. Virus Bull., June, 2006, pp. 4–6.

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Star What?

Bontchev, V. Virus Bull., August, 2006, pp. 7–11.

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2007

The Dark Side of Whitelisting

Bontchev, V. Virus Bull., August, 2007, pp. 4–8.

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Virusability of Modern Mobile Environments

Bontchev, V. Proc. 17^th Int. Virus Bull. Conf., 2007, pp. 186–191.

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2019

Analysis of the Global Attack Landscape Using Data from a Telnet Honeypot

Bontchev, V., Yosifova, V. Information & Security, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 264–282. DOI

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2020

Contemporary Cyber-Security Trends and Related Ethical Dilemmas

Bontchev, V., Polimirova, D. Ethical Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 2020, pp. 75–83 (Part 1) and vol. 5, no. 2, 2020, pp. 35–54 (Part 2), ISSN:2534-8434.

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2021

Possible Instant Messaging Malware Attack Using Unicode Right-to-Left Override

Yosifova, V., Bontchev, V. Springer, Studies in Big Data 84, 2021, ISBN:978-3-030-65721-5, ISSN:2197-6503, pp. 179–191. DOI

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A VBA P-Code Disassembler

Bontchev, V. Springer, Studies in Big Data 84, 2021, Springer, 2021, ISBN:978-3-030-65721-5, pp. 193–199.

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