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Dynamic analysis enables detecting Windows malware by executing programs in a controlled environment and logging their actions. Previous work has proposed training machine learning models, i.e., convolutional and long short-term memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dmitrijs Trizna , Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Malware detection in modern computing environments demands models that are not only accurate but also interpretable and robust to evasive techniques. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in this domain by modeling rich structural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hossein Shokouhinejad , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Griffin Higgins , Ali A Ghorbani

This study explores the application of quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms to enhance cybersecurity threat detection, particularly in the classification of malware and intrusion detection within high-dimensional datasets. Classical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tanya Joshi , Krishnendu Guha

Machine learning and neural networks have become increasingly popular solutions for encrypted malware traffic detection. They mine and learn complex traffic patterns, enabling detection by fitting boundaries between malware traffic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Susu Cui , Cong Dong , Meng Shen , Yuling Liu , Bo Jiang , Zhigang Lu

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

Machine learning based malware detection techniques rely on grayscale images of malware and tends to classify malware based on the distribution of textures in graycale images. Albeit the advancement and promising results shown by machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sanket Shukla

As the number and complexity of malware attacks continue to increase, there is an urgent need for effective malware detection systems. While deep learning models are effective at detecting malware, they are vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Mahesh Datta Sai Ponnuru , Likhitha Amasala , Tanu Sree Bhimavarapu , Guna Chaitanya Garikipati

The increasing number of sophisticated malware poses a major cybersecurity threat. Portable executable (PE) files are a common vector for such malware. In this work we review and evaluate machine learning-based PE malware detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Collin Connors , Dilip Sarkar

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

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

Machine learning has proven to be a useful tool for automated malware detection, but machine learning models have also been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This article addresses the problem of generating adversarial malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pavla Louthánová , Matouš Kozák , Martin Jureček , Mark Stamp

Deep neural networks (DNNs) based saliency detection approaches have succeed in recent years, and improved the performance by a great margin via increasingly sophisticated network architecture. Despite the performance improvement, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Shanghua Xiao

In applying deep learning for malware classification, it is crucial to account for the prevalence of malware evolution, which can cause trained classifiers to fail on drifted malware. Existing solutions to address concept drift use active…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Adrian Shuai Li , Arun Iyengar , Ashish Kundu , Elisa Bertino

Classical machine learning (CML) has been extensively studied for malware classification. With the emergence of quantum computing, quantum machine learning (QML) presents a paradigm-shifting opportunity to improve malware detection, though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jesus Lopez , Saeefa Rubaiyet Nowmi , Viviana Cadena , Mohammad Saidur Rahman

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

In recent years we have witnessed an increase in cyber threats and malicious software attacks on different platforms with important consequences to persons and businesses. It has become critical to find automated machine learning techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Abir Rahali , Moulay A. Akhloufi

Android, the most popular mobile OS, has around 78% of the mobile market share. Due to its popularity, it attracts many malware attacks. In fact, people have discovered around one million new malware samples per quarter, and it was reported…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Mingshen Sun , Xiaolei Li , John C. S. Lui , Richard T. B. Ma , Zhenkai Liang

With the rapid advancement of machine learning (ML), ML-based Android malware detection has gained significant popularity due to its ability to automatically learn malicious patterns from Android apps. However, the lack of an in-depth and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiahao Liu , Jun Zeng , Fabio Pierazzi , Ziqi Yang , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Zhenkai Liang

Neural networks have been successfully applied in applications with a large amount of labeled data. However, the task of rapid generalization on new concepts with small training data while preserving performances on previously learned ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Deep neural networks have achieved substantial achievements in several computer vision areas, but have vulnerabilities that are often fooled by adversarial examples that are not recognized by humans. This is an important issue for security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Hakmin Lee , Hong Joo Lee , Seong Tae Kim , Yong Man Ro