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Malicious software, or malware, presents a continuously evolving challenge in computer security. These embedded snippets of code in the form of malicious files or hidden within legitimate files cause a major risk to systems with their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Rakshit Agrawal , Jack W. Stokes , Mady Marinescu , Karthik Selvaraj

With the increasingly rapid development of new malicious computer software by bad faith actors, both commercial and research-oriented antivirus detectors have come to make greater use of machine learning tactics to identify such malware as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Hamish Spencer , Wei Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, many of them with substantial safety and security concerns. This paper introduces DeepCheck, a new approach for validating DNNs based on core ideas from program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Divya Gopinath , Kaiyuan Wang , Mengshi Zhang , Corina S. Pasareanu , Sarfraz Khurshid

Web parameter injection attacks are common and powerful. In this kind of attacks, malicious attackers can employ HTTP requests to implement attacks against servers by injecting some malicious codes into the parameters of the HTTP requests.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Wei Rong , Bowen Zhang , Xixiang Lv

Detecting and intercepting malicious requests are one of the most widely used ways against attacks in the network security. Most existing detecting approaches, including matching blacklist characters and machine learning algorithms have all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Wenhao Li , Bincheng Zhang , Jiajie Zhang

As an increasing number of deep-learning-based malware scanners have been proposed, the existing evasion techniques, including code obfuscation and polymorphic malware, are found to be less effective. In this work, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Lan Zhang , Peng Liu , Yoon-Ho Choi , Ping Chen

Malicious WebShells pose a significant and evolving threat by compromising critical digital infrastructures and endangering public services in sectors such as healthcare and finance. While the research community has made significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Feijiang Han

The increasing reliance on software in various applications has made the problem of software vulnerability detection more critical. Software vulnerabilities can lead to security breaches, data theft, and other negative outcomes. Traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Saadh Jawwadh , Guhanathan Poravi

Computer security has been plagued by increasing formidable, dynamic, hard-to-detect, hard-to-predict, and hard-to-characterize hacking techniques. Such techniques are very often deployed in self-propagating worms capable of automatically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Valentino Crespi , Wes Hardaker , Sami Abu-El-Haija , Aram Galstyan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries embed a hidden backdoor trigger during the training process for malicious prediction manipulation. These attacks pose great threats to the applications of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Junfeng Guo , Yiming Li , Xun Chen , Hanqing Guo , Lichao Sun , Cong Liu

Fileless malware predominantly relies on PowerShell scripts, leveraging the native capabilities of Windows systems to execute stealthy attacks that leave no traces on the victim's system. The effectiveness of the fileless method lies in its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Said Varlioglu , Nelly Elsayed , Eva Ruhsar Varlioglu , Murat Ozer , Zag ElSayed

Recent work has shown that adversarial Windows malware samples - referred to as adversarial EXEmples in this paper - can bypass machine learning-based detection relying on static code analysis by perturbing relatively few input bytes. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Luca Demetrio , Scott E. Coull , Battista Biggio , Giovanni Lagorio , Alessandro Armando , Fabio Roli

The security of open-source software repositories is increasingly threatened by next-gen software supply chain attacks. These attacks include multiphase malware execution, remote access activation, and dynamic payload generation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Sk Tanzir Mehedi , Raja Jurdak , Chadni Islam , Abu Bakar Siddique Mahi , Gowri Ramachandran

In this article, we present a Shell Language Preprocessing (SLP) library, which implements tokenization and encoding directed at parsing Unix and Linux shell commands. We describe the rationale behind the need for a new approach with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Dmitrijs Trizna

With the increasing usage of open-source software (OSS) components, vulnerabilities embedded within them are propagated to a huge number of underlying applications. In practice, the timely application of security patches in downstream…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Xinda Wang , Shu Wang , Pengbin Feng , Kun Sun , Sushil Jajodia , Sanae Benchaaboun , Frank Geck

Deep learning is becoming increasingly popular in real-life applications, especially in natural language processing (NLP). Users often choose training outsourcing or adopt third-party data and models due to data and computation resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xuan Sheng , Zhaoyang Han , Piji Li , Xiangmao Chang

The Linux shell is a command-line interpreter that provides users with a command interface to the operating system, allowing them to perform a variety of functions. Although very useful in building capabilities at the edge, the Linux shell…

In the era of the internet and smart devices, the detection of malware has become crucial for system security. Malware authors increasingly employ obfuscation techniques to evade advanced security solutions, making it challenging to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-04 S M Rakib Hasan , Aakar Dhakal

Domain Name Service is a trusted protocol made for name resolution, but during past years some approaches have been developed to use it for data transfer. DNS Tunneling is a method where data is encoded inside DNS queries, allowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Franco Palau , Carlos Catania , Jorge Guerra , Sebastian Garcia , Maria Rigaki

Protecting sensitive data is an essential part of security in cloud computing. However, only specific privileged individuals have access to view or interact with this data; therefore, it is unscalable to depend on these individuals also to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Dr Anthony L. Faulds