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Machine-learning methods have already been exploited as useful tools for detecting malicious executable files. They leverage data retrieved from malware samples, such as header fields, instruction sequences, or even raw bytes, to learn…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Bojan Kolosnjaji , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Giacinto , Claudia Eckert , Fabio Roli

In the paced realms of cybersecurity and digital forensics machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have emerged as game changing technologies that introduce methods to identify stop and analyze cyber risks. This review presents an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jaouhar Fattahi

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

Malware detection has become a major concern due to the increasing number and complexity of malware. Traditional detection methods based on signatures and heuristics are used for malware detection, but unfortunately, they suffer from poor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tristan Bilot , Nour El Madhoun , Khaldoun Al Agha , Anis Zouaoui

Malware presents a persistent threat to user privacy and data integrity. To combat this, machine learning-based (ML-based) malware detection (MD) systems have been developed. However, these systems have increasingly been attacked in recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ping He , Yuhao Mao , Changjiang Li , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Ting Wang , Shouling Ji

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

Malware detection increasingly relies on AI systems that integrate signature-based detection with machine learning. However, these components are typically developed and combined in isolation, missing opportunities to reduce data complexity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Andrea Ponte , Luca Demetrio , Luca Oneto , Ivan Tesfai Ogbu , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

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

Embedded devices are specialised devices designed for one or only a few purposes. They are often part of a larger system, through wired or wireless connection. Those embedded devices that are connected to other computers or embedded systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Gergely Hevesi

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

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

Machine learning and data mining algorithms play important roles in designing intrusion detection systems. Based on their approaches toward the detection of attacks in a network, intrusion detection systems can be broadly categorized into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Jaydip Sen , Sidra Mehtab

Malware has become a widely used means in cyber attacks in recent decades because of various new obfuscation techniques used by malwares. In order to protect the systems, data and information, detection of malware is needed as early as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Heena

Programming Language Processing (PLP) using machine learning has made vast improvements in the past few years. Increasingly more people are interested in exploring this promising field. However, it is challenging for new researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Patrick Flynn , Tristan Vanderbruggen , Chunhua Liao , Pei-Hung Lin , Murali Emani , Xipeng Shen

The current pandemic situation has increased cyber-attacks drastically worldwide. The attackers are using malware like trojans, spyware, rootkits, worms, ransomware heavily. Ransomware is the most notorious malware, yet we did not have any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Nanda Rani , Sunita Vikrant Dhavale

Machine learning techniques are currently used extensively for automating various cybersecurity tasks. Most of these techniques utilize supervised learning algorithms that rely on training the algorithm to classify incoming data into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Prithviraj Dasgupta , Joseph B. Collins

Operationalizing machine learning based security detections is extremely challenging, especially in a continuously evolving cloud environment. Conventional anomaly detection does not produce satisfactory results for analysts that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Ram Shankar Siva Kumar , Andrew Wicker , Matt Swann

Machine learning (ML) started to become widely deployed in cyber security settings for shortening the detection cycle of cyber attacks. To date, most ML-based systems are either proprietary or make specific choices of feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Talha Ongun , Timothy Sakharaov , Simona Boboila , Alina Oprea , Tina Eliassi-Rad

Malware detection have used machine learning to detect malware in programs. These applications take in raw or processed binary data to neural network models to classify as benign or malicious files. Even though this approach has proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Xiruo Wang , Risto Miikkulainen

The threat of malware is a serious concern for computer networks and systems, highlighting the need for accurate classification techniques. In this research, we experiment with multimodal machine learning approaches for malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jonathan Jiang , Mark Stamp