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Machine learning (ML) has gained significant adoption in Android malware detection to address the escalating threats posed by the rapid proliferation of malware attacks. However, recent studies have revealed the inherent vulnerabilities of…

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Malicious PDF documents present a serious threat to various security organizations that require modern threat intelligence platforms to effectively analyze and characterize the identity and behavior of PDF malware. State-of-the-art…

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Malware change day by day and become sophisticated. Not only the complexity of the algorithm that generating malware, but also the camouflage methods. Camouflage, formerly, only need a simple encryption. Now, camouflage are able to change…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Luqman Muhammad Zagi

Mobile malware has been growing in scale and complexity spurred by the unabated uptake of smartphones worldwide. Android is fast becoming the most popular mobile platform resulting in sharp increase in malware targeting the platform.…

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Malware developers use combinations of techniques such as compression, encryption, and obfuscation to bypass anti-virus software. Malware with anti-analysis technologies can bypass AI-based anti-virus software and malware analysis tools.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Jong-Wouk Kim , Yang-Sae Moon , Mi-Jung Choi

In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of dynamic analysis techniques for identifying malware, using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Profile Hidden Markov Models (PHMMs), both trained on sequences of API calls. We contrast our results…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Swapna Vemparala , Fabio Di Troia , Corrado A. Visaggio , Thomas H. Austin , Mark Stamp

Pattern recognition and machine learning techniques have been increasingly adopted in adversarial settings such as spam, intrusion and malware detection, although their security against well-crafted attacks that aim to evade detection by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Fei Zhang , Patrick P. K. Chan , Battista Biggio , Daniel S. Yeung , Fabio Roli

We investigate a Deep Learning based system for malware detection. In the investigation, we experiment with different combination of Deep Learning architectures including Auto-Encoders, and Deep Neural Networks with varying layers over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Mohit Sewak , Sanjay K. Sahay , Hemant Rathore

Motivated by the transformative impact of deep neural networks (DNNs) in various domains, researchers and anti-virus vendors have proposed DNNs for malware detection from raw bytes that do not require manual feature engineering. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Keane Lucas , Mahmood Sharif , Lujo Bauer , Michael K. Reiter , Saurabh Shintre

Malware authors are continuously evolving their code base to include counter-analysis methods that can significantly hinder their detection and blocking. While the execution of malware in a sandboxed environment may provide a lot of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Vasilis Vouvoutsis , Fran Casino , Constantinos Patsakis

Toward robust malware detection, we explore the attack surface of existing malware detection systems. We conduct root-cause analyses of the practical binary-level black-box adversarial malware examples. Additionally, we uncover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ahmed Abusnaina , Yizhen Wang , Sunpreet Arora , Ke Wang , Mihai Christodorescu , David Mohaisen

Malware has become a formidable threat as it has been growing exponentially in number and sophistication, thus, it is imperative to have a solution that is easy to implement, reliable, and effective. While recent research has introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jahez Abraham Johny , Vinod P. , Asmitha K. A. , G. Radhamani , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Mauro Conti

Information systems have widely been the target of malware attacks. Traditional signature-based malicious program detection algorithms can only detect known malware and are prone to evasion techniques such as binary obfuscation, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Shen Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Xiao Yu , Ding Li , Jingchao Ni , Lu-An Tang , Jiaping Gui , Zhichun Li , Haifeng Chen , Philip S. Yu

In today's digital world most of the anti-malware tools are signature based which is ineffective to detect advanced unknown malware viz. metamorphic malware. In this paper, we study the frequency of opcode occurrence to detect unknown…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Sanjay Sharma , C. Rama Krishna , Sanjay K. Sahay

With the rapid proliferation and increased sophistication of malicious software (malware), detection methods no longer rely only on manually generated signatures but have also incorporated more general approaches like machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Felipe N. Ducau , Ethan M. Rudd , Tad M. Heppner , Alex Long , Konstantin Berlin

Static malware analysis is well-suited to endpoint anti-virus systems as it can be conducted quickly by examining the features of an executable piece of code and matching it to previously observed malicious code. However, static code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Matilda Rhode , Pete Burnap , Kevin Jones

Malware detection and classification into families are critical tasks in cybersecurity, complicated by the continual evolution of malware to evade detection. This evolution introduces concept drift, in which the statistical properties of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Olha Jurečková , Martin Jureček

Online malware scanners are one of the best weapons in the arsenal of cybersecurity companies and researchers. A fundamental part of such systems is the sandbox that provides an instrumented and isolated environment (virtualized or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Antonio Nappa , Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Matteo Varvello , Daniel Aceituno Gomez , Juan Tapiador , Andrea Lanzi

Over past years, the manually methods to create detection rules were no longer practical in the anti-malware product since the number of malware threats has been growing. Thus, the turn to the machine learning approaches is a promising way…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Khanh Huu The Dam , Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel , Axel Legay

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

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