APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR SIMILAR MALICIOUS CODE BASED ON MALICIOUS CODE FEATURE INFORMATION

An apparatus and method for searching for similar malicious code based on malicious code feature information. The apparatus includes a malicious code registration unit for registering input new malicious code as a new malicious code sample, and extracting and registering detailed information of the new malicious code sample, a malicious code analysis unit for analyzing the detailed information of the new malicious code sample, a malicious code DNA extraction unit for extracting malicious code DNA information including malicious code feature information, a malicious code DNA comparison unit for comparing the extracted malicious code DNA information with malicious code DNA information of prestored malicious code samples, and calculating similarities therebetween, and a similar malicious code search unit for calculating, based on the calculated similarities, all similarities between the new malicious code sample and prestored malicious code samples, and extracting a specific number of malicious code samples.