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Malware classification is a contemporary and ongoing challenge in cyber-security: modern obfuscation techniques are able to evade traditional static analysis, while dynamic analysis is too resource intensive to be deployed at a large scale.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jack Wilkie , Hanan Hindy , Ivan Andonovic , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson

Web applications are permanently being exposed to attacks that exploit their vulnerabilities. In this work we investigate the application of machine learning techniques to leverage Web Application Firewall (WAF), a technology that is used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Gustavo Betarte , Eduardo Giménez , Rodrigo Martínez , Álvaro Pardo

The use of Machine Learning has become a significant part of malware detection efforts due to the influx of new malware, an ever changing threat landscape, and the ability of Machine Learning methods to discover meaningful distinctions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-16 John Boutsikas , Maksim E. Eren , Charles Varga , Edward Raff , Cynthia Matuszek , Charles Nicholas

Recently, Deep Learning has been showing promising results in various Artificial Intelligence applications like image recognition, natural language processing, language modeling, neural machine translation, etc. Although, in general, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Mohit Sewak , Sanjay K. Sahay , Hemant Rathore

Many efforts have been made to use various forms of domain knowledge in malware detection. Currently there exist two common approaches to malware detection without domain knowledge, namely byte n-grams and strings. In this work we explore…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Edward Raff , Jared Sylvester , Charles Nicholas

Deep neural networks show great potential for automating various visual quality inspection tasks in manufacturing. However, their applicability is limited in more volatile scenarios, such as remanufacturing, where the inspected products and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Johannes C. Bauer , Paul Geng , Stephan Trattnig , Petr Dokládal , Rüdiger Daub

Feature matching is a cornerstone task in computer vision, essential for applications such as image retrieval, stereo matching, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. This survey comprehensively reviews modality-based feature matching, exploring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Weide Liu , Wei Zhou , Jun Liu , Ping Hu , Jun Cheng , Jungong Han , Weisi Lin

As the Internet is growing rapidly these years, the variant of malicious software, which often referred to as malware, has become one of the major and serious threats to Internet users. The dramatic increase of malware has led to a research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jingyun Jia

In the era of the internet and smart devices, the detection of malware has become crucial for system security. Malware authors increasingly employ obfuscation techniques to evade advanced security solutions, making it challenging to detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-04 S M Rakib Hasan , Aakar Dhakal

Differentiating malware is important to determine their behaviors and level of threat; as well as to devise defensive strategy against them. In response, various anti-malware systems have been developed to distinguish between different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Nazmul Islam , Seokjoo Shin

Cybercrime is one of the major digital threats of this century. In particular, ransomware attacks have significantly increased, resulting in global damage costs of tens of billion dollars. In this paper, we train and test different Machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Benjamin Marais , Tony Quertier , Stéphane Morucci

Machine learning-based static malware detectors remain vulnerable to adversarial evasion techniques, such as metamorphic engine mutations. To address this vulnerability, we propose a certifiably robust malware detection framework based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Nandakrishna Giri , Asmitha K. A. , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera , Vinod P

We propose a deep learning-based feature fusion approach for facial computing including face recognition as well as gender, race and age detection. Instead of training a single classifier on face images to classify them based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Wei Li , Zhigang Zhu

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Fang Wang , Hussam Al Hamadi , Ernesto Damiani

In recent years, the use of image-based techniques for malware detection has gained prominence, with numerous studies demonstrating the efficacy of deep learning approaches such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in classifying images…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Atharva Khadilkar , Mark Stamp

With the rapid development of machine learning for image classification, researchers have found new applications of visualization techniques in malware detection. By converting binary code into images, researchers have shown satisfactory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Hadjer Benkraouda , Jingyu Qian , Hung Quoc Tran , Berkay Kaplan

In this study we have presented a novel feature representation for malicious programs that can be used for malware classification. We have shown how to construct the features in a bottom-up approach, and analyzed the overlap of malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-19 John Musgrave , Temesguen Messay-Kebede , David Kapp , Anca Ralescu

This work addresses classification of unknown binaries executed in sandbox by modeling their interaction with system resources (files, mutexes, registry keys and communication with servers over the network) and error messages provided by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Jan Stiborek , Tomáš Pevný , Martin Rehák

Face morphing, a sophisticated presentation attack technique, poses significant security risks to face recognition systems. Traditional methods struggle to detect morphing attacks, which involve blending multiple face images to create a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Iurii Medvedev , Joana Pimenta , Nuno Gonçalves

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