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Nowadays, with the booming development of Internet and software industry, more and more malware variants are designed to perform various malicious activities. Traditional signature-based detection methods can not detect variants of malware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Renjie Lu

Deep learning (DL) has proven to be effective in detecting sophisticated malware that is constantly evolving. Even though deep learning has alleviated the feature engineering problem, finding the most optimal DL model, in terms of neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Austin Brown , Maanak Gupta , Mahmoud Abdelsalam

A serious threat today is malicious executables. It is designed to damage computer system and some of them spread over network without the knowledge of the owner using the system. Two approaches have been derived for it i.e. Signature Based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Usukhbayar Baldangombo , Nyamjav Jambaljav , Shi-Jinn Horng

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 work, we propose EarlyMalDetect, a novel approach for early Windows malware detection based on sequences of API calls. Our approach leverages generative transformer models and attention-guided deep recurrent neural networks to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Pascal Maniriho , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury

Signature and anomaly based techniques are the quintessential approaches to malware detection. However, these techniques have become increasingly ineffective as malware has become more sophisticated and complex. Researchers have therefore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Dennis Dang , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

The threat of malware is a serious concern for computer networks and systems, highlighting the need for accurate classification techniques. In this research, we experiment with multimodal machine learning approaches for malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jonathan Jiang , Mark Stamp

Malware detection and classification remains a topic of concern for cybersecurity, since it is becoming common for attackers to use advanced obfuscation on their malware to stay undetected. Conventional static analysis is not effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Md Shahnawaz , Bishwajit Prasad Gond , Durga Prasad Mohapatra

The popularity of Windows attracts the attention of hackers/cyber-attackers, making Windows devices the primary target of malware attacks in recent years. Several sophisticated malware variants and anti-detection methods have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Pascal Maniriho , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury

Behavioral malware detection aims to improve on the performance of static signature-based techniques used by anti-virus systems, which are less effective against modern polymorphic and metamorphic malware. Behavioral malware classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Bander Alsulami , Spiros Mancoridis

Malware, or software designed with harmful intent, is an ever-evolving threat that can have drastic effects on both individuals and institutions. Neural network malware classification systems are key tools for combating these threats but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Preston K. Robinette , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Serena Serbinowska , Kevin Leach , Taylor T. Johnson

Based on API call sequences, semantic-aware and machine learning (ML) based malware classifiers can be built for malware detection or classification. Previous works concentrate on crafting and extracting various features from malware…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Xin Wang , Siu Ming Yiu

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

Malicious software is an integral part of cybercrime defense. Due to the growing number of malicious attacks and their target sources, detecting and preventing the attack becomes more challenging due to the assault's changing behavior. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mohammad Aziz , Ali Saeed Alfoudi

In the past decade, the cyber-crime related to mobile devices has increased. Mobile devices, especially the ones running on Android operating system are particularly interesting to malware creators, as the users often keep the biggest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Nikola Milosevic , Junfan Huang

Static detection technologies based on signature-based approaches that are widely used in Android platform to detect malicious applications. It can accurately detect malware by extracting signatures from test data and then comparing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Sanya Chaba , Rahul Kumar , Rohan Pant , Mayank Dave

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

Malware is one of the most common and severe cyber-attack today. Malware infects millions of devices and can perform several malicious activities including mining sensitive data, encrypting data, crippling system performance, and many more.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pascal Maniriho , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury

Many different machine learning and deep learning techniques have been successfully employed for malware detection and classification. Examples of popular learning techniques in the malware domain include Hidden Markov Models (HMM), Random…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ritik Mehta , Olha Jurečková , Mark Stamp

The problem of malicious software (malware) detection and classification is a complex task, and there is no perfect approach. There is still a lot of work to be done. Unlike most other research areas, standard benchmarks are difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita , Mahmoud Bensaoud