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Malware creators have been getting their way for too long now. String-based similarity measures can leverage ground truth in a scalable way and can operate at a level of abstraction that is difficult to combat from the code level. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Sukriti Bhattacharya , Hector D. Menendez , Earl Barr , David Clark

Converting malware into images followed by vision-based deep learning algorithms has shown superior threat detection efficacy compared with classical machine learning algorithms. When malware are visualized as images, visual-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Li Chen , Carter Yagemann , Evan Downing

We propose a deep learning approach for identifying malware families using the function call graphs of x86 assembly instructions. Though prior work on static call graph analysis exists, very little involves the application of modern,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Thomas Dalton , Mauritius Schmidtler , Alireza Hadj Khodabakhshi

Malware is constantly adapting in order to avoid detection. Model based malware detectors, such as SVM and neural networks, are vulnerable to so-called adversarial examples which are modest changes to detectable malware that allows the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Abdullah Al-Dujaili , Alex Huang , Erik Hemberg , Una-May O'Reilly

Tackling binary program analysis problems has traditionally implied manually defining rules and heuristics, a tedious and time-consuming task for human analysts. In order to improve automation and scalability, we propose an alternative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shushan Arakelyan , Sima Arasteh , Christophe Hauser , Erik Kline , Aram Galstyan

A serious threat today is malicious executables. It is designed to damage computer system and some of them spread over network without the knowledge of the owner using the system. Two approaches have been derived for it i.e. Signature Based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Usukhbayar Baldangombo , Nyamjav Jambaljav , Shi-Jinn Horng

The perpetual opposition between antiviruses and malware leads both parties to evolve continuously. On the one hand, antiviruses put in place solutions that are more and more sophisticated and propose more complex detection techniques in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Cédric Herzog , Valérie Viet Triem Tong , Pierre Wilke , Arnaud van Straaten , Jean-Louis Lanet

Visual quality inspection in automotive production is essential for ensuring the safety and reliability of vehicles. Computer vision (CV) has become a popular solution for these inspections due to its cost-effectiveness and reliability.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Christoph Huber , Ludwig Schleeh , Dino Knoll , Michael Guthe

While the rapid adaptation of mobile devices changes our daily life more conveniently, the threat derived from malware is also increased. There are lots of research to detect malware to protect mobile devices, but most of them adopt only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hye Min Kim , Hyun Min Song , Jae Woo Seo , Huy Kang Kim

Malware analysis involves analyzing suspicious software to detect malicious payloads. Static malware analysis, which does not require software execution, relies increasingly on machine learning techniques to achieve scalability. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Pierre-Francois Gimenez , Sarath Sivaprasad , Mario Fritz

Although anti-virus software has significantly evolved over the last decade, classic signature matching based on byte patterns is still a prevalent concept for identifying security threats. Anti-virus signatures are a simple and fast…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Christian Wressnegger , Kevin Freeman , Fabian Yamaguchi , Konrad Rieck

The behavior of malware threats is gradually increasing, heightened the need for malware detection. However, existing malware detection methods only target at the existing malicious samples, the detection of fresh malicious code and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhao Yang , Fengyang Deng , Linxi Han

The role of data in building AI systems has recently been emphasized by the emerging concept of data-centric AI. Unfortunately, in the real-world, datasets may contain dirty samples, such as poisoned samples from backdoor attack, noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zihao Zhu , Mingda Zhang , Shaokui Wei , Bingzhe Wu , Baoyuan Wu

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 order to prevent detection and evade signature-based scanning methods, which are normally exploited by antivirus software, metamorphic viruses use several various obfuscation approaches. They transform their code in new instances as look…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Babak Bashari Rad , Maslin Masrom

In this paper, we present a novel method of differentiating known from previously unseen malware families. We utilize transfer learning by learning compact file representations that are used for a new classification task between previously…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Ilay Cordonsky , Ishai Rosenberg , Guillaume Sicard , Eli David

Malware analysis has been extensively investigated as the number and types of malware has increased dramatically. However, most previous studies use end-to-end systems to detect whether a sample is malicious, or to identify its malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Yi-Ting Huang , Ting-Yi Chen , Yeali S. Sun , Meng Chang Chen

In this paper we present an elaborated graph-based algorithmic technique for efficient malware detection. More precisely, we utilize the system-call dependency graphs (or, for short ScD graphs), obtained by capturing taint analysis traces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Stavros D. Nikolopoulos , Iosif Polenakis

Machine learning (ML) used for static portable executable (PE) malware detection typically employs per-file numerical feature vector representations as input with one or more target labels during training. However, there is much orthogonal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Adarsh Kyadige , Ethan M. Rudd , Konstantin Berlin

In this paper, we explore the use of metric learning to embed Windows PE files in a low-dimensional vector space for downstream use in a variety of applications, including malware detection, family classification, and malware attribute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Ethan M. Rudd , David Krisiloff , Scott Coull , Daniel Olszewski , Edward Raff , James Holt