Pith Number

pith:KWCFZRA4

pith:2019:KWCFZRA4Z2QTUM36RROBGDPWNH

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A characterisation of system-wide propagation in the malware landscape

David Korczynski

arxiv:1908.10167 v1 · 2019-08-27 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KWCFZRA4Z2QTUM36RROBGDPWNH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T23:59:54.513808Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

55845cc41ccea13a337e8c5c130df669e10bd3c40cb8a08affcca18eced65bdc

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.10167 · arxiv_version: 1908.10167v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.10167 · pith_short_12: KWCFZRA4Z2QT · pith_short_16: KWCFZRA4Z2QTUM36 · pith_short_8: KWCFZRA4

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KWCFZRA4Z2QTUM36RROBGDPWNH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 55845cc41ccea13a337e8c5c130df669e10bd3c40cb8a08affcca18eced65bdc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8de8dd5bec783785b2d0eb785cc64cfeb68c80bb08baf2b87608e6ad880b903f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-27T12:52:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cf86b3234df9c2e5377b1c693cd9447615c69f302780148c2232c07c9de35d91"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.10167",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}