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Threats from the internet, particularly malicious software (i.e., malware) often use cryptographic algorithms to disguise their actions and even to take control of a victim's system (as in the case of ransomware). Malware and other threats…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Diane Duros Hosfelt

Hardware-based Malware Detectors (HMDs) using Machine Learning (ML) models have shown promise in detecting malicious workloads. However, the conventional black-box based machine learning (ML) approach used in these HMDs fail to address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Harshit Kumar , Nikhil Chawla , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

This paper presents an experimental design and data analytics approach aimed at power-based malware detection on general-purpose computers. Leveraging the fact that malware executions must consume power, we explore the postulate that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-18 Robert Bridges , Jarilyn Hernandez Jimenez , Jeffrey Nichols , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Stacy Prowell

Machine learning has been successfully applied in developing malware detection systems, with a primary focus on accuracy, and increasing attention to reducing computational overhead and improving model interpretability. However, an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Oladipo A. Madamidola , Felix Ngobigha , Adnane Ez-zizi

Malware analysis involves analyzing suspicious software to detect malicious payloads. Static malware analysis, which does not require software execution, relies increasingly on machine learning techniques to achieve scalability. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Pierre-Francois Gimenez , Sarath Sivaprasad , Mario Fritz

Malware detection plays a vital role in computer security. Modern machine learning approaches have been centered around domain knowledge for extracting malicious features. However, many potential features can be used, and it is time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Chani Jindal , Christopher Salls , Hojjat Aghakhani , Keith Long , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

Analyzing a huge amount of malware is a major burden for security analysts. Since emerging malware is often a variant of existing malware, automatically classifying malware into known families greatly reduces a part of their burden.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Rikima Mitsuhashi , Takahiro Shinagawa

With the rapid development of machine learning for image classification, researchers have found new applications of visualization techniques in malware detection. By converting binary code into images, researchers have shown satisfactory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Hadjer Benkraouda , Jingyu Qian , Hung Quoc Tran , Berkay Kaplan

This paper summarizes the research conducted for a malware detection project using the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity's MalMemAnalysis-2022 dataset. The purpose of the project was to explore the effectiveness and efficiency of machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sarah Nassar

As currently classical malware detection methods based on signatures fail to detect new malware, they are not always efficient with new obfuscation techniques. Besides, new malware is easily created and old malware can be recoded to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Andree Linke , Nhien-An Le-Khac

In the digitized world, smartphones and their apps play an important role. To name just a few examples, some apps offer possibilities for entertainment, others for online banking, and others offer support for two-factor authentication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Alexander Hefter , Christoph Sendner , Alexandra Dmitrienko

Machine learning (ML)-based Android malware detection has been one of the most popular research topics in the mobile security community. An increasing number of research studies have demonstrated that machine learning is an effective and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Yue Liu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Li Li , Yepang Liu

AI methods have been proven to yield impressive performance on Android malware detection. However, most AI-based methods make predictions of suspicious samples in a black-box manner without transparency on models' inference. The expectation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zhi Lu , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

Android malware has been on the rise in recent years due to the increasing popularity of Android and the proliferation of third party application markets. Emerging Android malware families are increasingly adopting sophisticated detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-06 BooJoong Kang , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer , Kieran McLaughlin

In this chapter, readers will explore how machine learning has been applied to build malware detection systems designed for the Windows operating system. This chapter starts by introducing the main components of a Machine Learning pipeline,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Daniel Gibert

Static malware analysis is well-suited to endpoint anti-virus systems as it can be conducted quickly by examining the features of an executable piece of code and matching it to previously observed malicious code. However, static code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Matilda Rhode , Pete Burnap , Kevin Jones

This paper introduces a malware detection system for smartphones based on studying the dynamic behavior of suspicious applications. The main goal is to prevent the installation of the malicious software on the victim systems. The approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jorge Maestre Vidal , Marco Antonio Sotelo Monge , Luis Javier García Villalba

Malware is a type of malicious program that replicate from host machine and propagate through network. It has been considered as one type of computer attack and intrusion that can do a variety of malicious activity on a computer. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Y. Robiah , S. Siti Rahayu , M. Mohd Zaki , S. Shahrin , M. A. Faizal , R. Marliza

Machine learning has proven to be a useful tool for automated malware detection, but machine learning models have also been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This article addresses the problem of generating adversarial malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pavla Louthánová , Matouš Kozák , Martin Jureček , Mark Stamp

Cyber security can be enhanced through application of machine learning by recasting network attack data into an image format, then applying supervised computer vision and other machine learning techniques to detect malicious specimens.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Erik Larsen , Korey MacVittie , John Lilly