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This technical report presents a comprehensive analysis of malware classification using OpCode sequences. Two distinct approaches are evaluated: traditional machine learning using n-gram analysis with Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Varij Saini , Rudraksh Gupta , Neel Soni

In this paper, we consider malware classification using deep learning techniques and image-based features. We employ a wide variety of deep learning techniques, including multilayer perceptrons (MLP), convolutional neural networks (CNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Pratikkumar Prajapati , Mark Stamp

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one of the key architectures of deep learning models, have achieved superior performance on many machine learning tasks such as image classification, video recognition, and power systems. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Hanxiao Lu , Zeyu Huang , Ren Wang

Recent work has shown that deep-learning algorithms for malware detection are also susceptible to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully-crafted perturbations to input malware that enable misleading classification. Although this has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio , Giovanni Lagorio , Fabio Roli , Alessandro Armando

Research in the field of malware classification often relies on machine learning models that are trained on high-level features, such as opcodes, function calls, and control flow graphs. Extracting such features is costly, since disassembly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Mugdha Jain , William Andreopoulos , Mark Stamp

Malware visualization analysis incorporating with Machine Learning (ML) has been proven to be a promising solution for improving security defenses on different platforms. In this work, we propose an integrated framework for addressing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Fang Wang , Hussam Al Hamadi , Ernesto Damiani

In recent years, there has been a significant surge in malware attacks, necessitating more advanced preventive measures and remedial strategies. While several successful AI-based malware classification approaches exist categorized into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Quincy Card , Daniel Simpson , Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta , Sheikh Rabiul Islam

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

Existing research on malware detection focuses almost exclusively on the detection rate. However, in some cases, it is also important to understand the results of our algorithm, or to obtain more information, such as where to investigate in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Tony Quertier , Grégoire Barrué

Recently, deep learning models have achieved great success in computer vision applications, relying on large-scale class-balanced datasets. However, imbalanced class distributions still limit the wide applicability of these models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Yechan Kim , Younkwan Lee , Moongu Jeon

This paper presents a deep learning approach for the classification of Engineering (CAD) models using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Owing to the availability of large annotated datasets and also enough computational power in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Bharadwaj Manda , Pranjal Bhaskare , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

State-of-the-art deep neural networks have been shown to be extremely powerful in a variety of perceptual tasks like semantic segmentation. However, these networks are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations of the input which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kira Maag , Asja Fischer

The deep convolutional neural network(CNN) has significantly raised the performance of image classification and face recognition. Softmax is usually used as supervision, but it only penalizes the classification loss. In this paper, we…

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Brain tumor classification using MRI images is critical in medical diagnostics, where early and accurate detection significantly impacts patient outcomes. While recent advancements in deep learning (DL), particularly CNNs, have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Priyam Ganguly , Akhilbaran Ghosh

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained with the Softmax loss are widely used classification models for several vision tasks. Typically, a learnable transformation (i.e. the classifier) is placed at the end of such models returning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Federico Pernici , Matteo Bruni , Claudio Baecchi , Alberto Del Bimbo

In digital forensics, file fragment classification is an important step toward completing file carving process. There exist several techniques to identify the type of file fragments without relying on meta-data, such as using features like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mustafa Ghaleb , Kunwar Saaim , Muhamad Felemban , Saleh Al-Saleh , Ahmad Al-Mulhem

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are known for their good performance and generalization in vision-related tasks and have become state-of-the-art in both application and research-based domains. However, just like other neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Mohammed Amer , Tomás Maul

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly used for image classification. Saliency methods are examples of approaches that can be used to interpret CNNs post hoc, identifying the most relevant pixels for a prediction following the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Nicholas Halliwell , Freddy Lecue

Detecting packed executables is a critical step in malware analysis, as packing obscures the original code and complicates static inspection. This study evaluates both classical feature-based methods and deep learning approaches that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ehab Alkhateeb , Ali Ghorbani , Arash Habibi Lashkari

Security researchers grapple with the surge of malicious files, necessitating swift identification and classification of malware strains for effective protection. Visual classifiers and in particular Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Matteo Brosolo , Vinod Puthuvath , Mauro Conti