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In the modern era, malware is experiencing a significant increase in both its variety and quantity, aligning with the widespread adoption of the digital world. This surge in malware has emerged as a critical challenge in the realm of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Amaal F. Alshmarni , Mohammed A. Alliheedi

This study examines machine learning techniques like Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Logistic Regression, Neural Networks, and ensemble methods to detect Android malware. The study evaluates these models on a dataset of Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hasan Abdulla

Machine learning malware detectors are vulnerable to adversarial EXEmples, i.e., carefully-crafted Windows programs tailored to evade detection. Unlike other adversarial problems, attacks in this context must be functionality-preserving, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Marco Rando , Luca Demetrio , Lorenzo Rosasco , Fabio Roli

This paper explores the automated analysis of palmar features using machine learning techniques. We present a computer vision pipeline that extracts key characteristics from palm images, such as principal line structures, texture, and shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shweta Patil

To date, a large number of research papers have been written on the classification of malware, its identification, classification into different families and the distinction between malware and goodware. These works have been based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Ivan Zelinka , Miloslav Szczypka , Jan Plucar , Nikolay Kuznetsov

For well over a quarter century, detection systems have been driven by models learned from input features collected from real or simulated environments. An artifact (e.g., network event, potential malware sample, suspicious email) is deemed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Z. Berkay Celik , Patrick McDaniel , Rauf Izmailov , Nicolas Papernot , Ryan Sheatsley , Raquel Alvarez , Ananthram Swami

Analysing malware is important to understand how malicious software works and to develop appropriate detection and prevention methods. Dynamic analysis can overcome evasion techniques commonly used to bypass static analysis and provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Baskoro Adi Pratomo , Toby Jackson , Pete Burnap , Andrew Hood , Eirini Anthi

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be applied to malware binary detection via image classification. The performance, however, is degraded due to the imbalance of malware families (classes). To mitigate this issue, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Songqing Yue , Tianyang Wang

Model repositories such as Hugging Face increasingly distribute machine learning artifacts serialized with Python's pickle format, exposing users to remote code execution (RCE) risks during model loading. Recent defenses, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hillel Ohayon , Daniel Gilkarov , Ran Dubin

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley

In this work we introduce malware detection from raw byte sequences as a fruitful research area to the larger machine learning community. Building a neural network for such a problem presents a number of interesting challenges that have not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-27 Edward Raff , Jon Barker , Jared Sylvester , Robert Brandon , Bryan Catanzaro , Charles Nicholas

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

Due to continuous increase in the number of malware (according to AV-Test institute total ~8 x 10^8 malware are already known, and every day they register ~2.5 x 10^4 malware) and files in the computational devices, it is very important to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Sanjay K. Sahay , Mayank Chaudhari

Training pipelines for machine learning (ML) based malware classification often rely on crowdsourced threat feeds, exposing a natural attack injection point. In this paper, we study the susceptibility of feature-based ML malware classifiers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Giorgio Severi , Jim Meyer , Scott Coull , Alina Oprea

In this study we have presented a novel feature representation for malicious programs that can be used for malware classification. We have shown how to construct the features in a bottom-up approach, and analyzed the overlap of malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-19 John Musgrave , Temesguen Messay-Kebede , David Kapp , Anca Ralescu

Process discovery algorithms automatically extract process models from event logs, but high variability often results in complex and hard-to-understand models. To mitigate this issue, trace clustering techniques group process executions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jari Peeperkorn , Johannes De Smedt , Jochen De Weerdt

In applying deep learning for malware classification, it is crucial to account for the prevalence of malware evolution, which can cause trained classifiers to fail on drifted malware. Existing solutions to address concept drift use active…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Adrian Shuai Li , Arun Iyengar , Ashish Kundu , Elisa Bertino

Machine learning and deep learning (ML/DL) have been extensively applied in malware detection, and some existing methods demonstrate robust performance. However, several issues persist in the field of malware detection: (1) Existing work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Xingyuan Wei , Yichen Liu , Ce Li , Ning Li , Degang Sun , Yan Wang

A novel approach to malware classification is introduced based on analysis of instruction traces that are collected dynamically from the program in question. The method has been implemented online in a sandbox environment (i.e., a security…

Applications · Statistics 2014-04-10 Curtis Storlie , Blake Anderson , Scott Vander Wiel , Daniel Quist , Curtis Hash , Nathan Brown

Malware detection has become a challenging task due to the increase in the number of malware families. Universal malware detection algorithms that can detect all the malware families are needed to make the whole process feasible. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , M. Hadi Amini , Hamid R. Arabnia