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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

Since the threat of malicious software (malware) has become increasingly serious, automatic malware detection techniques have received increasing attention, where machine learning (ML)-based visualization detection methods become more and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Xinbo Liu , Jiliang Zhang , Yaping Lin , He Li

This technical report presents a comprehensive analysis of malware classification using OpCode sequences. Two distinct approaches are evaluated: traditional machine learning using n-gram analysis with Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Nearest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Varij Saini , Rudraksh Gupta , Neel Soni

We report the findings of a reimplementation of 18 foundational studies in feature-based machine learning for Android malware detection, published during the period 2013-2023. These studies are reevaluated on a level playing field using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ali Muzaffar , Hani Ragab Hassen , Hind Zantout , Michael A Lones

Many studies have proposed machine-learning (ML) models for malware detection and classification, reporting an almost-perfect performance. However, they assemble ground-truth in different ways, use diverse static- and dynamic-analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Savino Dambra , Yufei Han , Simone Aonzo , Platon Kotzias , Antonino Vitale , Juan Caballero , Davide Balzarotti , Leyla Bilge

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

Software vulnerabilities are usually caused by design flaws or implementation errors, which could be exploited to cause damage to the security of the system. At present, the most commonly used method for detecting software vulnerabilities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Gaigai Tang , Lianxiao Meng , Shuangyin Ren , Weipeng Cao , Qiang Wang , Lin Yang

Software vulnerability detection is crucial for high-quality software development. Recently, some studies utilizing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn the graph representation of code in vulnerability detection tasks have achieved…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xin Peng , Shangwen Wang , Yihao Qin , Bo Lin , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao

Signature and anomaly based techniques are the quintessential approaches to malware detection. However, these techniques have become increasingly ineffective as malware has become more sophisticated and complex. Researchers have therefore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Dennis Dang , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

The detection of malware is a critical task for the protection of computing environments. This task often requires extremely low false positive rates (FPR) of 0.01% or even lower, for which modern machine learning has no readily available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Andre T. Nguyen , Edward Raff , Charles Nicholas , James Holt

As a result of decades of research, Windows malware detection is approached through a plethora of techniques. However, there is an ongoing mismatch between academia -- which pursues an optimal performances in terms of detection rate and low…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Andrea Ponte , Dmitrijs Trizna , Luca Demetrio , Battista Biggio , Ivan Tesfai Ogbu , Fabio Roli

In recent years, malware becomes more threatening. Concerning the increasing malware variants, there comes Machine Learning (ML)-based and Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches for heuristic detection. Nevertheless, the prediction accuracy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Yuzhou Lin

In this research, we compare malware detection techniques based on static, dynamic, and hybrid analysis. Specifically, we train Hidden Markov Models (HMMs ) on both static and dynamic feature sets and compare the resulting detection rates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Anusha Damodaran , Fabio Di Troia , Visaggio Aaron Corrado , Thomas H. Austin , Mark Stamp

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

With the increasing extent of malware attacks in the present day along with the difficulty in detecting modern malware, it is necessary to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) for malware classification.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Akhil M R , Adithya Krishna V Sharma , Harivardhan Swamy , Pavan A , Ashray Shetty , Anirudh B Sathyanarayana

Since the Internet of Things (IoT) is widely adopted using Android applications, detecting malicious Android apps is essential. In recent years, Android graph-based deep learning research has proposed many approaches to extract…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Rahul Yumlembam , Biju Issac , Seibu Mary Jacob , Longzhi Yang

This work addresses the challenge of malware classification using machine learning by developing a novel dataset labeled at both the malware type and family levels. Raw binaries were collected from sources such as VirusShare, VX…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 David Bálik , Martin Jureček , Mark Stamp

Malware detection and analysis are active research subjects in cybersecurity over the last years. Indeed, the development of obfuscation techniques, as packing, for example, requires special attention to detect recent variants of malware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Benjamin Marais , Tony Quertier , Christophe Chesneau

The emergence of mobile platforms with increased storage and computing capabilities and the pervasive use of these platforms for sensitive applications such as online banking, e-commerce and the storage of sensitive information on these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Joshua Abah , Waziri O. , Abdullahi M. B , Arthur U. M , Adewale O. S

Software vulnerabilities, caused by unintentional flaws in source codes, are the main root cause of cyberattacks. Source code static analysis has been used extensively to detect the unintentional defects, i.e. vulnerabilities, introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Arash Mahyari