English
Related papers

Related papers: MalNet: A Large-Scale Image Database of Malicious …

200 papers

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be applied to malware binary detection via image classification. The performance, however, is degraded due to the imbalance of malware families (classes). To mitigate this issue, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Songqing Yue , Tianyang Wang

Modern cybersecurity requires systematic ways to evaluate how detection systems respond to evolving and previously unseen attack behaviors. Existing malware repositories largely capture known patterns and provide limited support for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Bikash Saha , Sandeep Kumar Shukla

In recent years there has been a shift from heuristics-based malware detection towards machine learning, which proves to be more robust in the current heavily adversarial threat landscape. While we acknowledge machine learning to be better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Dragos Georgian Corlatescu , Alexandru Dinu , Mihaela Gaman , Paul Sumedrea

IT-security experts engage in behavior-based malware analysis in order to learn about previously unknown samples of malicious software (malware) or malware families. For this, they need to find and categorize suspicious patterns from large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Markus Wagner , Alexander Rind , Niklas Thür , Wolfgang Aigner

Recent growth and proliferation of malware have tested practitioners ability to promptly classify new samples according to malware families. In contrast to labor-intensive reverse engineering efforts, machine learning approaches have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Jiliang Li , Yifan Zhang , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

In deep learning area, large-scale image datasets bring a breakthrough in the success of object recognition and retrieval. Nowadays, as the embodiment of innovation, the diversity of the industrial goods is significantly larger, in which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Fangyuan Lei , Da Huang , Jianjian Jiang , Ruijun Ma , Senhong Wang , Jiangzhong Cao , Yusen Lin , Qingyun Dai

Malicious software (malware) is a major cyber threat that has to be tackled with Machine Learning (ML) techniques because millions of new malware examples are injected into cyberspace on a daily basis. However, ML is vulnerable to attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Deqiang Li , Qianmu Li , Yanfang Ye , Shouhuai Xu

Recent generative models produce images with a level of authenticity that makes them nearly indistinguishable from real photos and artwork. Potential harmful use cases of these models, necessitate the creation of robust synthetic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Delyan Boychev , Radostin Cholakov

Understanding the patterns of misclassified ImageNet images is particularly important, as it could guide us to design deep neural networks (DNN) that generalize better. However, the richness of ImageNet imposes difficulties for researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Shixian Wen , Amanda Sofie Rios , Kiran Lekkala , Laurent Itti

Automated malware analysis increasingly relies on machine learning, yet most existing methods remain task-specific and depend on handcrafted features or narrowly scoped models. Recent developments in binary-level foundation models suggest a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Saastha Vasan , Yuzhou Nie , Kaie Chen , Yigitcan Kaya , Hojjat Aghakhani , Roman Vasilenko , Wenbo Guo , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

Malwares are continuously growing in sophistication and numbers. Over the last decade, remarkable progress has been achieved in anti-malware mechanisms. However, several pressing issues (e.g., unknown malware samples detection) still need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Zahid Akhtar

Malicious software (malware) poses an increasing threat to the security of communication systems as the number of interconnected mobile devices increases exponentially. While some existing malware detection and classification approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Julian Busch , Anton Kocheturov , Volker Tresp , Thomas Seidl

In recent years, there has been a significant surge in malware attacks, necessitating more advanced preventive measures and remedial strategies. While several successful AI-based malware classification approaches exist categorized into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Quincy Card , Daniel Simpson , Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta , Sheikh Rabiul Islam

Analysing malware is important to understand how malicious software works and to develop appropriate detection and prevention methods. Dynamic analysis can overcome evasion techniques commonly used to bypass static analysis and provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Baskoro Adi Pratomo , Toby Jackson , Pete Burnap , Andrew Hood , Eirini Anthi

The challenge in engaging malware activities involves the correct identification and classification of different malware variants. Various malwares incorporate code obfuscation methods that alters their code signatures effectively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Felan Carlo C. Garcia , Felix P. Muga

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools in cybersecurity, offering advanced capabilities in malware detection, generation, and real-time monitoring. Numerous studies have explored their application in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Hamed Jelodar , Samita Bai , Parisa Hamedi , Hesamodin Mohammadian , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Ali Ghorbani

Although ImageNet was initially proposed as a dataset for performance benchmarking in the domain of computer vision, it also enabled a variety of other research efforts. Adversarial machine learning is one such research effort, employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Utku Ozbulak , Maura Pintor , Arnout Van Messem , Wesley De Neve

The deliberate manipulation of public opinion, especially through altered images, which are frequently disseminated through online social networks, poses a significant danger to society. To fight this issue on a technical level we support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 David Fischinger , Martin Boyer

Automated affective computing in the wild setting is a challenging problem in computer vision. Existing annotated databases of facial expressions in the wild are small and mostly cover discrete emotions (aka the categorical model). There…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Ali Mollahosseini , Behzad Hasani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

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