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Malware, a persistent cybersecurity threat, increasingly targets interconnected digital systems such as desktop, mobile, and IoT platforms through sophisticated attack vectors. By exploiting these vulnerabilities, attackers compromise the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Matteo Brosolo , Asmitha K. A. , Mauro Conti , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Muhammed Shafi K. P. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P

As the popularity of Android smart phones has increased in recent years, so too has the number of malicious applications. Due to the potential for data theft mobile phone users face, the detection of malware on Android devices has become an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Chenglin Li , Keith Mills , Rui Zhu , Di Niu , Hongwen Zhang , Husam Kinawi

One of the major and serious threats that the Internet faces today is the vast amounts of data and files which need to be evaluated for potential malicious intent. Malicious software, often referred to as a malware that are designed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Sajedul Talukder

Disease Intelligence (DI) is based on the acquisition and aggregation of fragmented knowledge of diseases at multiple sources all over the world to provide valuable information to doctors, researchers and information seeking community. Some…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-11-16 Prabath Chaminda Abeysiriwardana , Saluka R Kodituwakku

Malwares are becoming persistent by creating full- edged variants of the same or different family. Malwares belonging to same family share same characteristics in their functionality of spreading infections into the victim computer. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Anishka Singh , Rohit Arora , Himanshu Pareek

Android malware detection has been extensively studied using both traditional machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) approaches. While many state-of-the-art detection models, particularly those based on DL, claim superior performance,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Guojun Liu , Doina Caragea , Xinming Ou , Sankardas Roy

Android malware is a continuously expanding threat to billions of mobile users around the globe. Detection systems are updated constantly to address these threats. However, a backlash takes the form of evasion attacks, in which an adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Harel Berger , Chen Hajaj , Enrico Mariconti , Amit Dvir

The increasing frequency of attacks on Android applications coupled with the recent popularity of large language models (LLMs) necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the capabilities of the latter in identifying potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Vasileios Kouliaridis , Georgios Karopoulos , Georgios Kambourakis

Efforts have been recently made to construct ontologies for network security. The proposed ontologies are related to specific aspects of network security. Therefore, it is necessary to identify the specific aspects covered by existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Danny Velasco , Glen Rodriguez

Android malware detectors often degrade after deployment because of concept drift, while full retraining at each maintenance step is costly. We propose a chronological adaptive maintenance framework that models deployment-time maintenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ahmed Sabbah , Mohammad Kharma , Mohammad Alkhanafseh , Radi Jarrar , Samer Zein , David Mohaisen

The rising use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to create and disseminate malware poses a significant cybersecurity challenge due to their ability to generate and distribute attacks with ease. A single prompt can initiate a wide array of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Jamal Al-Karaki , Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan , Marwan Omar

Our computer systems for decades have been threatened by various types of hardware and software attacks of which Malwares have been one of them. This malware has the ability to steal, destroy, contaminate, gain unintended access, or even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Abhijitt Dhavlle , Sanket Shukla

In recent years, the increase in non-Windows malware threats had turned the focus of the cybersecurity community. Research works on hunting Windows PE-based malwares are maturing, whereas the developments on Linux malware threat hunting are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Anandharaju Durai Raju , Ibrahim Abualhaol , Ronnie Salvador Giagone , Yang Zhou , Shengqiang Huang

We propose a deep learning approach for identifying malware families using the function call graphs of x86 assembly instructions. Though prior work on static call graph analysis exists, very little involves the application of modern,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Thomas Dalton , Mauritius Schmidtler , Alireza Hadj Khodabakhshi

There is little information from independent sources in the public domain about mobile malware infection rates. The only previous independent estimate (0.0009%) [12], was based on indirect measurements obtained from domain name resolution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Hien Thi Thu Truong , Eemil Lagerspetz , Petteri Nurmi , Adam J. Oliner , Sasu Tarkoma , N. Asokan , Sourav Bhattacharya

Control Flow Graphs and Function Call Graphs have become pivotal in providing a detailed understanding of program execution and effectively characterizing the behavior of malware. These graph-based representations, when combined with Graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Hesamodin Mohammadian , Griffin Higgins , Samuel Ansong , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Ali A. Ghorbani

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

We present MADCAT, a self-supervised approach designed to address the concept drift problem in malware detection. MADCAT employs an encoder-decoder architecture and works by test-time training of the encoder on a small, balanced subset of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Eunjin Roh , Yigitcan Kaya , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna , Sanghyun Hong

Training pipelines for machine learning (ML) based malware classification often rely on crowdsourced threat feeds, exposing a natural attack injection point. In this paper, we study the susceptibility of feature-based ML malware classifiers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Giorgio Severi , Jim Meyer , Scott Coull , Alina Oprea

Repackaging is a technique that has been increasingly adopted by authors of Android malware. The main problem facing the research community working on devising techniques to detect this breed of malware is the lack of ground truth that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Aleieldin Salem