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As machine-learning (ML) based systems for malware detection become more prevalent, it becomes necessary to quantify the benefits compared to the more traditional anti-virus (AV) systems widely used today. It is not practical to build an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-14 William Fleshman , Edward Raff , Richard Zak , Mark McLean , 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

Due to the popularity of portable document format (PDF) and increasing number of vulnerabilities in major PDF viewer applications, malware writers continue to use it to deliver malware via web downloads, email attachments and other methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Jason Zhang

In the case of malware analysis, categorization of malicious files is an essential part after malware detection. Numerous static and dynamic techniques have been reported so far for categorizing malware. This research presents a deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Muhammad Furqan Rafique , Muhammad Ali , Aqsa Saeed Qureshi , Asifullah Khan , Anwar Majid Mirza

As computing systems become increasingly advanced and as users increasingly engage themselves in technology, security has never been a greater concern. In malware detection, static analysis, the method of analyzing potentially malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Chan Woo Kim

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

Malicious activities in cyberspace have gone further than simply hacking machines and spreading viruses. It has become a challenge for a nations survival and hence has evolved to cyber warfare. Malware is a key component of cyber-crime, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Muhammad Asam , Saddam Hussain Khan , Tauseef Jamal , Umme Zahoora , Asifullah Khan

Malware detection is a critical aspect of information security. One difficulty that arises is that malware often evolves over time. To maintain effective malware detection, it is necessary to determine when malware evolution has occurred so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Sunhera Paul , Mark Stamp

In the modern era, malware is experiencing a significant increase in both its variety and quantity, aligning with the widespread adoption of the digital world. This surge in malware has emerged as a critical challenge in the realm of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Amaal F. Alshmarni , Mohammed A. Alliheedi

The proliferation of malware, particularly through the use of packing, presents a significant challenge to static analysis and signature-based malware detection techniques. The application of packing to the original executable code renders…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Daniel Gibert , Nikolaos Totosis , Constantinos Patsakis , Giulio Zizzo , Quan Le

Malware evolves over time and antivirus must adapt to such evolution. Hence, it is critical to detect those points in time where malware has evolved so that appropriate countermeasures can be undertaken. In this research, we perform a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Lolitha Sresta Tupadha , Mark Stamp

Numerous open-source and commercial malware detectors are available. However, their efficacy is threatened by new adversarial attacks, whereby malware attempts to evade detection, e.g., by performing feature-space manipulation. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue , Gareth Tyson , Tian Dong , Shaofeng Li , Shuo Wang , Haojin Zhu , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal

The rapid evolution of malware has necessitated the development of sophisticated detection methods that go beyond traditional signature-based approaches. Graph learning techniques have emerged as powerful tools for modeling and analyzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Hossein Shokouhinejad , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Hesamodin Mohammadian , Mahdi Rabbani , Samuel Ansong , Griffin Higgins , Ali A Ghorbani

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

Malware, or software designed with harmful intent, is an ever-evolving threat that can have drastic effects on both individuals and institutions. Neural network malware classification systems are key tools for combating these threats but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Preston K. Robinette , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Serena Serbinowska , Kevin Leach , Taylor T. Johnson

Current malware detection and classification approaches generally rely on time consuming and knowledge intensive processes to extract patterns (signatures) and behaviors from malware, which are then used for identification. Moreover, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Quan Le , Oisín Boydell , Brian Mac Namee , Mark Scanlon

In today's interconnected digital landscape, the proliferation of malware poses a significant threat to the security and stability of computer networks and systems worldwide. As the complexity of malicious tactics, techniques, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Dhruv Nandakumar , Devin Quinn , Elijah Soba , Eunyoung Kim , Christopher Redino , Chris Chan , Kevin Choi , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

In malware detection, dynamic analysis extracts the runtime behavior of malware samples in a controlled environment and static analysis extracts features using reverse engineering tools. While the former faces the challenges of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mao V. Ngo , Tram Truong-Huu , Dima Rabadi , Jia Yi Loo , Sin G. Teo

In dynamic malware analysis, programs are classified as malware or benign based on their execution logs. We propose a concept of applying monotonic classification models to the analysis process, to make the trained model's predictions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Alexander Chistyakov , Ekaterina Lobacheva , Alexander Shevelev , Alexey Romanenko

One of the major and serious threats that the Internet faces today is the vast amounts of data and files which need to be evaluated for potential malicious intent. Malicious software, often referred to as a malware that are designed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Sajedul Talukder