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During the past four years, Flash malware has become one of the most insidious threats to detect, with almost 600 critical vulnerabilities targeting Adobe Flash disclosed in the wild. Research has shown that machine learning can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Davide Maiorca , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli , Giorgio Giacinto

Machine learning is rapidly becoming one of the most important technology for malware traffic detection, since the continuous evolution of malware requires a constant adaptation and the ability to generalize. However, network traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Ivan Letteri , Antonio Di Cecco , Giuseppe Della Penna

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being applied in malware detection and their robustness has been widely debated. Traditionally an adversarial example generation scheme relies on either detailed model information (gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Sun RuiJin , Guo ShiZe , Guo JinHong , Xing ChangYou , Yang LuMing , Guo Xi , Pan ZhiSong

Recently, a considerable amount of malware research has focused on the use of powerful image-based machine learning techniques, which generally yield impressive results. However, before image-based techniques can be applied to malware, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Rishit Agrawal , Kunal Bhatnagar , Andrew Do , Ronnit Rana , Mark Stamp

Both malware and antivirus detection tools advance in their capabilities. Malware aim is to evade the detection while antivirus is to detect the malware. Over time, the detection techniques evolved from simple static signature matching over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Ivica Stipovic

Beyond its highly publicized victories in Go, there have been numerous successful applications of deep learning in information retrieval, computer vision and speech recognition. In cybersecurity, an increasing number of companies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu

Malware analysis involves analyzing suspicious software to detect malicious payloads. Static malware analysis, which does not require software execution, relies increasingly on machine learning techniques to achieve scalability. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Pierre-Francois Gimenez , Sarath Sivaprasad , Mario Fritz

Malware visualization analysis incorporating with Machine Learning (ML) has been proven to be a promising solution for improving security defenses on different platforms. In this work, we propose an integrated framework for addressing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Fang Wang , Hussam Al Hamadi , Ernesto Damiani

Machine learning-based malware detection systems are often vulnerable to evasion attacks, in which a malware developer manipulates their malicious software such that it is misclassified as benign. Such software hides some properties of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Shirish Singh , Gail Kaiser

Accurately modeling malware propagation is essential for designing effective cybersecurity defenses, particularly against adaptive threats that evolve in real time. While traditional epidemiological models and recent neural approaches offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Karthik Pappu , Prathamesh Dinesh Joshi , Raj Abhijit Dandekar , Rajat Dandekar , Sreedath Panat

Malware is a type of malicious program that replicate from host machine and propagate through network. It has been considered as one type of computer attack and intrusion that can do a variety of malicious activity on a computer. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Y. Robiah , S. Siti Rahayu , M. Mohd Zaki , S. Shahrin , M. A. Faizal , R. Marliza

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

Machine learning has become an important component for many systems and applications including computer vision, spam filtering, malware and network intrusion detection, among others. Despite the capabilities of machine learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-14 Andrea Paudice , Luis Muñoz-González , Andras Gyorgy , Emil C. Lupu

Cyber security can be enhanced through application of machine learning by recasting network attack data into an image format, then applying supervised computer vision and other machine learning techniques to detect malicious specimens.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Erik Larsen , Korey MacVittie , John Lilly

Malware has become a widely used means in cyber attacks in recent decades because of various new obfuscation techniques used by malwares. In order to protect the systems, data and information, detection of malware is needed as early as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Heena

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices is paralleled by them being on the front-line of malicious attacks. This has led to an explosion in the number of IoT malware, with continued mutations, evolution, and sophistication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Ahmed Abusnaina , Afsah Anwar , Sultan Alshamrani , Abdulrahman Alabduljabbar , RhongHo Jang , Daehun Nyang , David Mohaisen

Over the last decade, machine learning has been extensively applied to identify malicious Android applications. However, such approaches remain vulnerable against adversarial examples, i.e., examples that are subtly manipulated to fool a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Pulido-Cortázar , Daniel Gibert , Felip Manyà

Malware is a security threat, and various means are adapted to detect and block them. In this paper, we demonstrate a method where malware can evade malware analysis. The method is based on single-step reverse execution of code using the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Adhokshaj Mishra , Animesh Roy , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

The rapid evolution of malware attacks calls for the development of innovative detection methods, especially in resource-constrained edge computing. Traditional detection techniques struggle to keep up with modern malware's sophistication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Christian Rondanini , Barbara Carminati , Elena Ferrari , Antonio Gaudiano , Ashish Kundu

Confronting the substantial challenges of malware detection in cybersecurity necessitates solutions that are both robust and adaptable to the ever-evolving threat environment. The paper introduces Meta Learning Malware Detection (MeLeMaD),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ajvad Haneef K , Karan Kuwar Singh , Madhu Kumar S D