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LLMs are increasingly explored for malware analysis; however, current LLM-based malware attribution remains limited by unsupported indicators and insufficient code-level grounding for identifying malicious and vulnerable code segments. To…

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Deep learning malware detectors achieve high classification accuracy but suffer from severe interpretability limitations, typically returning probabilistic verdicts that lack forensic context. We introduce AsmRAG, a framework performing…

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Malicious software is a pernicious global problem. A novel multi-task learning framework is proposed in this paper for malware image classification for accurate and fast malware detection. We generate bitmap (BMP) and (PNG) images from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita

Traditionally, machine learning methods for PE malware detection have relied on static features like byte histograms, string information, and PE header contents. One barrier to incorporating dynamic analysis features has been the…

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The automated and timely conversion of cybersecurity information from unstructured online sources, such as blogs and articles to more formal representations has become a necessity for many applications in the domain nowadays. Named Entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Houssem Gasmi , Jannik Laval , Abdelaziz Bouras

In recent years, there has been a surge in malware attacks across critical infrastructures, requiring further research and development of appropriate response and remediation strategies in malware detection and classification. Several works…

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Malware is a piece of software that was written with the intent of doing harm to data, devices, or people. Since a number of new malware variants can be generated by reusing codes, malware attacks can be easily launched and thus become…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Fangtian Zhong , Zekai Chen , Minghui Xu , Guoming Zhang , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng

Machine learning and deep learning (ML/DL) have been extensively applied in malware detection, and some existing methods demonstrate robust performance. However, several issues persist in the field of malware detection: (1) Existing work…

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Feature engineering is one of the most costly aspects of developing effective machine learning models, and that cost is even greater in specialized problem domains, like malware classification, where expert skills are necessary to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Scott E. Coull , Christopher Gardner

Breakthroughs in deep learning and memory networks have made major advances in natural language understanding. Language is sequential and information carried through the sequence can be captured through memory networks. Learning the…

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Deep learning (DL) has proven to be effective in detecting sophisticated malware that is constantly evolving. Even though deep learning has alleviated the feature engineering problem, finding the most optimal DL model, in terms of neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Austin Brown , Maanak Gupta , Mahmoud Abdelsalam

With the development of artificial intelligence algorithms like deep learning models and the successful applications in many different fields, further similar trails of deep learning technology have been made in cyber security area. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Shuqiang Lu , Lingyun Ying , Wenjie Lin , Yu Wang , Meining Nie , Kaiwen Shen , Lu Liu , Haixin Duan

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…

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Providing security for information is highly critical in the current era with devices enabled with smart technology, where assuming a day without the internet is highly impossible. Fast internet at a cheaper price, not only made…

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With the advent of new technologies, using various formats of digital gadgets is becoming widespread. In today's world, where everyday tasks are inevitable without technology, this extensive use of computers paves the way for malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Mohammad Mahdi Maghouli , Mohamadreza Fereydooni , Monireh Abdoos , Mojtaba Vahidi-Asl

Machine learning based solutions have been very helpful in solving problems that deal with immense amounts of data, such as malware detection and classification. However, deep neural networks have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Daniel Park , Bülent Yener

Malicious software attacks are having an increasingly significant economic impact. Commercial malware detection software can be costly, and tools that attribute malware to the specific software vulnerabilities it exploits are largely…

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Executable programs are highly structured files that can be recognized by operating systems and loaded into memory, analyzed for their dependencies, allocated resources, and ultimately executed. Each section of an executable program…

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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

Machine-learning methods have already been exploited as useful tools for detecting malicious executable files. They leverage data retrieved from malware samples, such as header fields, instruction sequences, or even raw bytes, to learn…

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