EXPLORATION DE DONNÉES EN CODE ASSEMBLEUR

Trade Agreement: Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT) Tendering Procedures: The bidder must supply Canadian goods and/or services Attachment: None Competitive Procurement Strategy: Best Overall Proposal Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement: No Nature of Requirements: TITLE : ASSEMBLY CODE DATA MINING

1 Background

To assess information systems for reliability, integrity, and vulnerability, as well as to understand and detect malware, analysis is required. As malware authors seldom do the favor of providing the source code of their creations, current analysis techniques rely on software reverse engineering, a manually intensive and time-consuming process. The objective of software reverse engineering is to determine the functionality of a program by taking the program's executable binary and generating textual files that contain the equivalent assembly code. Reverse engineering is further complicated by the necessary translation of assembly code into a series of abstractions that represent the overall flow of a program. Most of the steps involve finding interesting areas of an executable through an overwhelming amount of information and determining their overall functionality.

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) wants to create new data mining techniques, together with their associated theoretical foundations, algorithms, and tools. The goal is to analyze large data sets of assembly code generated through the reverse engineering process and address the current limitations of DRDC prototypes.

2 Objectives

This contract includes a firm portion and a portion to be performed on an "as and when requested basis" using a Task Authorization (TA).

Task 1: Firm portion of the Work In this task, the Contractor must : • Investigate and create new techniques for assembly code data mining. • Design prototypes of the newly created data mining techniques. • Conduct experiments to evaluate the precision, recall, and scalability of the new techniques.

Portion of the Work to be performed on an "as and when requested basis" using a Task Authorization (TA) The objectives of this portion of the Work are : • Task 2: Data Mining Techniques Design and Prototyping • Task 3: Port to Other Platforms • Task 4: Develop Plug-ins • Task 5: Evaluate Research Results Published in the Scientific literature • Task 6: Produce State-of-the-Art Reports

3 Additional Information

The organization for which the services are to be rendered is Defence Research and Development Canada - Valcartier (DRDC - Valcartier).

The period of the Contract is from date of Contract to October 31st, 2019, inclusive. For the firm portion of the Work : All the deliverables must be received on or before March 31st, 2015.

Estimated amount of available funding for this Contract : $400,000, Applicable Taxes extra, including $50,000, Applicable Taxes extra, for the firm portion of the Work.

Bidders must provide a list of names, or other related information as needed, pursuant to section 01 of Standard Instructions 2003.

For services requirements, Bidders in receipt of a pension or a lump sum payment must provide the required information as detailed in article 3 of Part 2 of the bid solicitation.

The requirement is subject to the provisions of the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT).

The requirement is limited to Canadian goods and/or services. Delivery Date: Above-mentioned

The Crown retains the right to negotiate with suppliers on any procurement.

Documents may be submitted in either official language of Canada.