Research Article
Evaluating Grayware Characteristics and Risks
Table 9
Risk levels of grayware assigned by the proposed framework.
| | # | Genre | Extremely | Highly | Moderately | Mildly | Slightly |
| | 1 | Spyware | 223 (0.257) | 44 (0.051) | 47244 (54.407) | 3954 (4.554) | 609 (0.701) | | 2 | Dialer | 9 (0.010) | 5 (0.006) | 95 (0.109) | 14931 (17.195) | 156 (0.180) | | 3 | Adware | 413 (0.476) | 12165 (14.010) | 774 (0.891) | 475 (0.547) | 297 (0.342) | | 4 | Hacking Tool | 4 (0.005) | 68 (0.078) | 86 (0.099) | 3444 (3.966) | 70 (0.081) | | 5 | Browser Helper Object | 70 (0.081) | 18 (0.021) | 351 (0.404) | 160 (0.184) | 92 (0.080) | | 6 | Cracking Application | 461 (0.531) | 0 (0.000) | 100 (0.115) | 27 (0.031) | 36 (0.042) | | 7 | Trojan-Spyware | 6 (0.007) | 0 (0.000) | 516 (0.594) | 68 (0.078) | 18 (0.020) | | 8 | Toolbar | 46 (0.053) | 16 (0.018) | 233 (0.268) | 66 (0.076) | 33 (0.020) | | 9 | Trackware | 63 (0.073) | 0 (0.000) | 39 (0.045) | 9 (0.010) | 5 (0.004) | | 10 | Keylogger | 8 (0.009) | 5 (0.006) | 36 (0.042) | 25 (0.029) | 11 (0.011) | | 11 | Remote Access Trojan | 2 (0.002) | 58 (0.067) | 9 (0.010) | 4 (0.005) | 2 (0.001) | | 12 | Hijacker | 4 (0.005) | 2 (0.002) | 30 (0.035) | 5 (0.006) | 4 (0.004) | | 13 | Dropper | 2 (0.002) | 1 (0.001) | 24 (0.028) | 34 (0.039) | 21 (0.019) |
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