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The metamorphic malware variants with the same malicious behavior (family), can obfuscate themselves to look different from each other. This variation in structure leads to a huge signature database for traditional signature matching…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Sanjay K. Sahay , Ashu Sharma

Malware and malware-based attacks are becoming more prevalent and complex. Attackers regularly come up with new techniques that have the ability to evade conventional and signature-based malware defense. In order to address such threats,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Parthajit Borah , Upasana Sarmah , D. K. Bhattacharyya , J. K. Kalita

Analyzing a huge amount of malware is a major burden for security analysts. Since emerging malware is often a variant of existing malware, automatically classifying malware into known families greatly reduces a part of their burden.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Rikima Mitsuhashi , Takahiro Shinagawa

As the security landscape evolves over time, where thousands of species of malicious codes are seen every day, antivirus vendors strive to detect and classify malware families for efficient and effective responses against malware campaigns.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Jae-wook Jang , Jiyoung Woo , Aziz Mohaisen , Jaesung Yun , Huy Kang Kim

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

This work focuses on a specific front of the malware detection arms-race, namely the detection of persistent, disk-resident malware. We exploit normalised compression distance (NCD), an information theoretic measure, applied directly to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Nadia Alshahwan , Earl T. Barr , David Clark , George Danezis

Due to increasing threats from malicious software (malware) in both number and complexity, researchers have developed approaches to automatic detection and classification of malware, instead of analyzing methods for malware files manually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Ahmed Bensaoud , Nawaf Abudawaood , Jugal Kalita

The escalating frequency and scale of recent malware attacks underscore the urgent need for swift and precise malware classification in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. Key challenges include accurately categorizing closely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shrey Bavishi , Shrey Modi

Software security visualization is an interdisciplinary field that combines the technical complexity of cybersecurity, including threat intelligence and compliance monitoring, with visual analytics, transforming complex security data into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ishara Devendra , Chaman Wijesiriwardana , Prasad Wimalaratne

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

System-wide propagation is frequently observed in malware, and there are several resources, like blog posts and similar, that detail some of the techniques used. However, there is currently no thorough study on the subject at large, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-28 David Korczynski

Malware classification is a difficult problem, to which machine learning methods have been applied for decades. Yet progress has often been slow, in part due to a number of unique difficulties with the task that occur through all stages of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Edward Raff , Charles Nicholas

Research shows that over the last decade, malware has been growing exponentially, causing substantial financial losses to various organizations. Different anti-malware companies have been proposing solutions to defend attacks from these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Hemant Rathore , Swati Agarwal , Sanjay K. Sahay , Mohit Sewak

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

Binary malware summarization aims to automatically generate human-readable descriptions of malware behaviors from executable files, facilitating tasks like malware cracking and detection. Previous methods based on Large Language Models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Haolang Lu , Hongrui Peng , Guoshun Nan , Jiaoyang Cui , Cheng Wang , Weifei Jin , Songtao Wang , Shengli Pan , Xiaofeng Tao

Detection of unknown malware with high accuracy is always a challenging task. Therefore, in this paper, we study the classification of unknown malware by two methods. In the first/regular method, similar to other authors [17][16][20]…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Ashu Sharma , Sanjay K. Sahay , Abhishek Kumar

Detecting packed executables is a critical step in malware analysis, as packing obscures the original code and complicates static inspection. This study evaluates both classical feature-based methods and deep learning approaches that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ehab Alkhateeb , Ali Ghorbani , Arash Habibi Lashkari

Deep learning-based adversarial malware detectors have yielded promising results in detecting never-before-seen malware executables without relying on expensive dynamic behavior analysis and sandbox. Despite their abilities, these detectors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 James Lee Hu , Mohammadreza Ebrahimi , Weifeng Li , Xin Li , Hsinchun Chen

This paper delves into the dynamic landscape of computer security, where malware poses a paramount threat. Our focus is a riveting exploration of the recent and promising hardware-based malware detection approaches. Leveraging hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Cristiano Pegoraro Chenet , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo

The volume of malware and the number of attacks in IoT devices are rising everyday, which encourages security professionals to continually enhance their malware analysis tools. Researchers in the field of cyber security have extensively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Meysam Ghahramani , Rahim Taheri , Mohammad Shojafar , Reza Javidan , Shaohua Wan