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They're beautiful but deadly. In a Symantec/MessageLabs art exhibit showcased during RSA Conference 2009, Trojans and botnets were displayed as captivating works of computational art that bring malware to life. And this year, new artworks also depict benign code used for e-mail archiving, encryption and e-mail continuity, as well as malicious software.
In the first stage of the process, the MessageLabs Intelligence team intercepted the threat and disassembled the code to render it inoperative. From there, the artist, Alex Dragulescu, used a specially built application to analyze the code and determine its values to create a 3-D entity. The entity was transferred to modeling software, where it was positioned and lit to best capture the aesthetics of the model. The artist then put the finishing touches on the final images for presentation. The result? Viruses and malware were transformed into exquisite works of art, such as the image on the left depicting a Phishing Account Notification scam.
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