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Detecting vulnerabilities within compiled binaries is challenging due to lost high-level code structures and other factors such as architectural dependencies, compilers, and optimization options. To address these obstacles, this research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Gary A. McCully , John D. Hastings , Shengjie Xu , Adam Fortier

Identifying vulnerable code is a precautionary measure to counter software security breaches. Tedious expert effort has been spent to build static analyzers, yet insecure patterns are barely fully enumerated. This work explores a deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yufan Zhuang , Sahil Suneja , Veronika Thost , Giacomo Domeniconi , Alessandro Morari , Jim Laredo

The globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) market is attracting an ever-growing number of partners, while remarkably lengthening the supply chain. Thereby, security concerns, such as those imposed by functional Reverse Engineering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Tim Bucher , Lilas Alrahis , Guilherme Paim , Sergio Bampi , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Hussam Amrouch

The problem of cross-platform binary code similarity detection aims at detecting whether two binary functions coming from different platforms are similar or not. It has many security applications, including plagiarism detection, malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Xiaojun Xu , Chang Liu , Qian Feng , Heng Yin , Le Song , Dawn Song

Over the years, open-source software systems have become prey to threat actors. Even as open-source communities act quickly to patch the breach, code vulnerability screening should be an integral part of agile software development from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Nafis Tanveer Islam , Gonzalo De La Torre Parra , Dylan Manuel , Elias Bou-Harb , Peyman Najafirad

Recent studies have shown that Binary Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are promising for saving computations of GNNs through binarized tensors. Prior work, however, mainly focused on algorithm designs or training techniques, leaving it open to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jou-An Chen , Hsin-Hsuan Sung , Xipeng Shen , Sutanay Choudhury , Ang Li

With the continuous extension of the Industrial Internet, cyber incidents caused by software vulnerabilities have been increasing in recent years. However, software vulnerabilities detection is still heavily relying on code review done by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Li Zhou , Minhuan Huang , Yujun Li , Yuanping Nie , Jin Li , Yiwei Liu

We address the problem of reverse engineering of stripped executables, which contain no debug information. This is a challenging problem because of the low amount of syntactic information available in stripped executables, and the diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yaniv David , Uri Alon , Eran Yahav

Following the success of Word2Vec embeddings, graph embeddings (GEs) have gained substantial traction. GEs are commonly generated and evaluated extrinsically on downstream applications, but intrinsic evaluations of the original graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hong Yung Yip , Chidaksh Ravuru , Neelabha Banerjee , Shashwat Jha , Amit Sheth , Aman Chadha , Amitava Das

Ransomware and other forms of malware cause significant financial and operational damage to organizations by exploiting long-standing and often difficult-to-detect software vulnerabilities. To detect vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Gary A. McCully , John D. Hastings , Shengjie Xu , Adam Fortier

Function name prediction is crucial for understanding stripped binaries in software reverse engineering, a key step for \textbf{enabling subsequent vulnerability analysis and patching}. However, existing approaches often struggle with…

Graph neural networks (GNNs), as a group of powerful tools for representation learning on irregular data, have manifested superiority in various downstream tasks. With unstructured texts represented as concept maps, GNNs can be exploited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Hejie Cui , Jiaying Lu , Yao Ge , Carl Yang

Automated detection of vulnerabilities in source code is an essential cybersecurity challenge, underpinning trust in digital systems and services. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising approach as they can learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 David Egea , Barproda Halder , Sanghamitra Dutta

The advancement of graph-based malware analysis is critically limited by the absence of large-scale datasets that capture the inherent hierarchical structure of software. Existing methods often oversimplify programs into single level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Han Chen , Hanchen Wang , Hongmei Chen , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang

Information systems have widely been the target of malware attacks. Traditional signature-based malicious program detection algorithms can only detect known malware and are prone to evasion techniques such as binary obfuscation, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Shen Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Xiao Yu , Ding Li , Jingchao Ni , Lu-An Tang , Jiaping Gui , Zhichun Li , Haifeng Chen , Philip S. Yu

This study explores the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) for vulnerability detection in software code, utilizing a real-world dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits. The dataset's structure, based on the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ravil Mussabayev

In this technical report, we present HW2VEC [11], an open-source graph learning tool for hardware security, and its implementation details (Figure 1). HW2VEC provides toolboxes for graph representation extraction in the form of Data Flow…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yasamin Moghaddas , Tommy Nguyen , Shih-Yuan Yu , Rozhin Yasaei , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as the state of the art for a variety of graph-related tasks and have been widely used in Heterogeneous Graphs (HetGs), where meta-paths help encode specific semantics between various node types.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xuqi Mao , Zhenying He , X. Sean Wang

Cross-device user matching is a critical problem in numerous domains, including advertising, recommender systems, and cybersecurity. It involves identifying and linking different devices belonging to the same person, utilizing sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ali Taghibakhshi , Mingyuan Ma , Ashwath Aithal , Onur Yilmaz , Haggai Maron , Matthew West

Effective channel estimation CE is critical for optimizing the performance of 5G New Radio NR systems particularly in dynamic environments where traditional methods struggle with complexity and adaptability This paper introduces GraphNet a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Sajedeh Norouzi , Mostafa Rahmani , Yi Chu , Torsten Braun , Kaushik Chowdhury , Alister Burr