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While machine learning (ML) models are being increasingly trusted to make decisions in different and varying areas, the safety of systems using such models has become an increasing concern. In particular, ML models are often trained on data…

Modern commercial antivirus systems increasingly rely on machine learning to keep up with the rampant inflation of new malware. However, it is well-known that machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). Previous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Wei Song , Xuezixiang Li , Sadia Afroz , Deepali Garg , Dmitry Kuznetsov , Heng Yin

This study investigates the effectiveness of several machine learning algorithms for static malware detection using the EMBER dataset, which contains feature representations of Portable Executable (PE) files. We evaluate eight…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Md Min-Ha-Zul Abedin , Tazqia Mehrub

We address the problems of identifying malware in network telemetry logs and providing \emph{indicators of compromise} -- comprehensible explanations of behavioral patterns that identify the threat. In our system, an array of specialized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Paul Prasse , Jan Brabec , Jan Kohout , Martin Kopp , Lukas Bajer , Tobias Scheffer

Despite being popularly used in many applications, neural network models have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., carefully crafted examples aiming to mislead machine learning models. Adversarial examples can pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Siwakorn Srisakaokul , Yuhao Zhang , Zexuan Zhong , Wei Yang , Tao Xie , Bo Li

This paper describes EMBER: a labeled benchmark dataset for training machine learning models to statically detect malicious Windows portable executable files. The dataset includes features extracted from 1.1M binary files: 900K training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Hyrum S. Anderson , Phil Roth

Malicious software is abundant in a world of innumerable computer users, who are constantly faced with these threats from various sources like the internet, local networks and portable drives. Malware is potentially low to high risk and can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-05-15 Priyank Singhal , Nataasha Raul

Deep learning is a thriving field currently stuffed with many practical applications and active research topics. It allows computers to learn from experience and to understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts, with each being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Fangtian Zhong , Xiuzhen Cheng , Dongxiao Yu , Bei Gong , Shuaiwen Song , Jiguo Yu

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

Static feature-based Android malware detection using machine learning (ML) remains critical due to its scalability and efficiency. However, existing approaches often overlook security-critical reproducibility concerns, such as dataset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Md Tanvirul Alam , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed software development and automated code generation. Motivated by these advancements, this paper explores the feasibility of LLMs in modifying malware source code to generate variants. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Md Ajwad Akil , Adrian Shuai Li , Imtiaz Karim , Arun Iyengar , Ashish Kundu , Vinny Parla , Elisa Bertino

In this work we introduce malware detection from raw byte sequences as a fruitful research area to the larger machine learning community. Building a neural network for such a problem presents a number of interesting challenges that have not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-27 Edward Raff , Jon Barker , Jared Sylvester , Robert Brandon , Bryan Catanzaro , Charles Nicholas

Malware open-set recognition (MOSR) aims at jointly classifying malware samples from known families and detect the ones from novel unknown families, respectively. Existing works mostly rely on a well-trained classifier considering the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Jingcai Guo , Yuanyuan Xu , Wenchao Xu , Yufeng Zhan , Yuxia Sun , Song Guo

The variety of services and functionality offered by various cloud service providers (CSP) have exploded lately. Utilizing such services has created numerous opportunities for enterprises infrastructure to become cloud-based and, in turn,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jeffrey C Kimmell , Mahmoud Abdelsalam , Maanak Gupta

Recent researches have shown that machine learning based malware detection algorithms are very vulnerable under the attacks of adversarial examples. These works mainly focused on the detection algorithms which use features with fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Weiwei Hu , Ying Tan

Nowadays, with the booming development of Internet and software industry, more and more malware variants are designed to perform various malicious activities. Traditional signature-based detection methods can not detect variants of malware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Renjie Lu

Malware represents a significant security concern in today's digital landscape, as it can destroy or disable operating systems, steal sensitive user information, and occupy valuable disk space. However, current malware detection methods,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chenzhong Yin , Hantang Zhang , Mingxi Cheng , Xiongye Xiao , Xinghe Chen , Xin Ren , Paul Bogdan

Embedded systems permeate through nearly all aspects of modern society. From cars to refrigerators to nuclear refineries, securing these systems has never been more important. Intrusions, such as the Stuxnet malware which broke the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Peter Henderson , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Since the threat of malicious software (malware) has become increasingly serious, automatic malware detection techniques have received increasing attention, where machine learning (ML)-based visualization detection methods become more and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Xinbo Liu , Jiliang Zhang , Yaping Lin , He Li

Malware detectors based on machine learning (ML) have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial malware examples. However, current methods to generate adversarial malware examples still have their limits. They either rely on detailed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Daniel Gibert , Jordi Planes , Quan Le , Giulio Zizzo