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The number of malware is constantly on the rise. Though most new malware are modifications of existing ones, their sheer number is quite overwhelming. In this paper, we present a novel system to visualize and map millions of malware to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed , Lakshmanan Nataraj , Satish Chikkagoudar , Shivkumar Chandrasekaran , B. S. Manjunath

Hardware-based Malware Detectors (HMDs) have shown promise in detecting malicious workloads. However, the current HMDs focus solely on the CPU core of a System-on-Chip (SoC) and, therefore, do not exploit the full potential of the hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Harshit Kumar , Biswadeep Chakraborty , Sudarshan Sharma , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Mobile malware are malicious programs that target mobile devices. They are an increasing problem, as seen in the rise of detected mobile malware samples per year. The number of active smartphone users is expected to grow, stressing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 J. S. Panman de Wit , J. van der Ham , D. Bucur

It is well-known that Android malware constantly evolves so as to evade detection. This causes the entire malware population to be non-stationary. Contrary to this fact, most of the prior works on Machine Learning based Android malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Annamalai Narayanan , Mahinthan Chandramohan , Lihui Chen , Yang Liu

We formulate low-level malware detection using algorithms based on feature matching as Order-based Malware Detection with Critical Instructions (General-OMDCI): given a pattern in the form of a sequence \(M\) of colored blocks, where each…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Adiesha Liyanage , Braeden Sopp , Binhai Zhu

Machine Learning (ML) techniques can facilitate the automation of malicious software (malware for short) detection, but suffer from evasion attacks. Many studies counter such attacks in heuristic manners, lacking theoretical guarantees and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Deqiang Li , Shicheng Cui , Yun Li , Jia Xu , Fu Xiao , Shouhuai Xu

Memory-related vulnerabilities constitute severe threats to the security of modern software. Despite the success of deep learning-based approaches to generic vulnerability detection, they are still limited by the underutilization of flow…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Sicong Cao , Xiaobing Sun , Lili Bo , Rongxin Wu , Bin Li , Chuanqi Tao

Vulnerability detection is a critical problem in software security and attracts growing attention both from academia and industry. Traditionally, software security is safeguarded by designated rule-based detectors that heavily rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Tiehua Zhang , Rui Xu , Jianping Zhang , Yuze Liu , Xin Chen , Jun Yin , Xi Zheng

The malware booming is a cyberspace equal to the effect of climate change to ecosystems in terms of danger. In the case of significant investments in cybersecurity technologies and staff training, the global community has become locked up…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ishita Gupta , Sneha Kumari , Priya Jha , Mohona Ghosh

The Android operating system is pervasively adopted as the operating system platform of choice for smart devices. However, the strong adoption has also resulted in exponential growth in the number of Android based malicious software or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Aye Thaw Da Naing , Justin Soh Beng Guan , Yarzar Shwe Win , Jonathan Pan

In e-commerce industry, graph neural network methods are the new trends for transaction risk modeling.The power of graph algorithms lie in the capability to catch transaction linking network information, which is very hard to be captured by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hang Yin , Zitao Zhang , Zhurong Wang , Yilmazcan Ozyurt , Weiming Liang , Wenyu Dong , Yang Zhao , Yinan Shan

With the rapid development of mobile networks, the people's social contacts have been considerably facilitated. However, the rise of mobile social network fraud upon those networks, has caused a great deal of distress, in case of depleting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Xinxin Hu , Haotian Chen , Hongchang Chen , Shuxin Liu , Xing Li , Shibo Zhang , Yahui Wang , Xiangyang Xue

The popularity of dynamic malware analysis has grown significantly, as it enables analysts to observe the behavior of executing samples, thereby enhancing malware detection and classification decisions. With the continuous increase in new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Ran Liu , Charles Nicholas

Behavioral malware detectors promise to expose previously unknown malware and are an important security primitive. However, even the best behavioral detectors suffer from high false positives and negatives. In this paper, we address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Mkhail Kazdagli , Constantine Caramanis , Sanjay Shakkottai , Mohit Tiwari

Local feature matching remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Recent Area to Point Matching (A2PM) methods have improved matching accuracy. However, existing research based on this framework relies on inefficient pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiangzeng Liu , Chi Wang , Guanglu Shi , Xiaodong Zhang , Qiguang Miao , Miao Fan

Sophisticated malware families exploit the openness of the Android platform to infiltrate IoT networks, enabling large-scale disruption, data exfiltration, and denial-of-service attacks. This systematic literature review (SLR) examines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shama Maganur , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Fangtian Zhong

Modern malware families often rely on domain-generation algorithms (DGAs) to determine rendezvous points to their command-and-control server. Traditional defence strategies (such as blacklisting domains or IP addresses) are inadequate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Pierre Lison , Vasileios Mavroeidis

Detecting the newly emerging malware variants in real time is crucial for mitigating cyber risks and proactively blocking intrusions. In this paper, we propose MG-DVD, a novel detection framework based on dynamic heterogeneous graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Chen Liu , Bo Li , Jun Zhao , Ming Su , Xu-Dong Liu

The advancement of graph-based malware analysis is critically limited by the absence of large-scale datasets that capture the inherent hierarchical structure of software. Existing methods often oversimplify programs into single level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Han Chen , Hanchen Wang , Hongmei Chen , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang

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