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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

Currently, Android malware detection is mostly performed on server side against the increasing number of malware. Powerful computing resource provides more exhaustive protection for app markets than maintaining detection by a single user.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Ruitao Feng , Sen Chen , Xiaofei Xie , Guozhu Meng , Shang-Wei Lin , Yang Liu

Machine learning models are increasingly being adopted across various fields, such as medicine, business, autonomous vehicles, and cybersecurity, to analyze vast amounts of data, detect patterns, and make predictions or recommendations. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Android malware detection systems suffer severe performance degradation over time due to concept drift caused by evolving malicious and benign app behaviors. Although recent methods leverage active learning and hierarchical contrastive loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Md Ahsanul Haque , Md Mahmuduzzaman Kamol , Suresh Kumar Amalapuram , Vladik Kreinovich , Mohammad Saidur Rahman

Deep learning (DL) has proven to be effective in detecting sophisticated malware that is constantly evolving. Even though deep learning has alleviated the feature engineering problem, finding the most optimal DL model, in terms of neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Austin Brown , Maanak Gupta , Mahmoud Abdelsalam

Existing Android malware detection approaches use a variety of features such as security sensitive APIs, system calls, control-flow structures and information flows in conjunction with Machine Learning classifiers to achieve accurate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Annamalai Narayanan , Mahinthan Chandramohan , Lihui Chen , Yang Liu

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 pervasiveness of the Android operating system, with the availability of applications almost for everything, is readily accessible in the official Google play store or a dozen alternative third-party markets. Additionally, the vital role…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Abdelmonim Naway , Yuancheng LI

Machine learning (ML) has been developed to detect malware in recent years. Most researchers focused their efforts on improving the detection performance but ignored the robustness of the ML models. In addition, many machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Nam Hoang Thanh , Trung Pham Duy , Lam Bui Thu

Machine learning is a key tool for Android malware detection, effectively identifying malicious patterns in apps. However, ML-based detectors are vulnerable to evasion attacks, where small, crafted changes bypass detection. Despite progress…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mostafa Jafari , Alireza Shameli-Sendi

Malware visualization analysis incorporating with Machine Learning (ML) has been proven to be a promising solution for improving security defenses on different platforms. In this work, we propose an integrated framework for addressing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Fang Wang , Hussam Al Hamadi , Ernesto Damiani

Despite the continued research and progress in building secure systems, Android applications continue to be ridden with vulnerabilities, necessitating effective detection methods. Current strategies involving static and dynamic analysis…

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The growing cybersecurity threats make it essential to use high-quality data to train Machine Learning (ML) models for network traffic analysis, without noisy or missing data. By selecting the most relevant features for cyber-attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 João Vitorino , Miguel Silva , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Over the last decade, machine learning has been extensively applied to identify malicious Android applications. However, such approaches remain vulnerable against adversarial examples, i.e., examples that are subtly manipulated to fool a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Pulido-Cortázar , Daniel Gibert , Felip Manyà

The influence of Deep Learning on image identification and natural language processing has attracted enormous attention globally. The convolution neural network that can learn without prior extraction of features fits well in response to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 TonTon Hsien-De Huang , Hung-Yu Kao

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

Android is undergoing unprecedented malicious threats daily, but the existing methods for malware detection often fail to cope with evolving camouflage in malware. To address this issue, we present HAWK, a new malware detection framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yiming Hei , Renyu Yang , Hao Peng , Lihong Wang , Xiaolin Xu , Jianwei Liu , Hong Liu , Jie Xu , Lichao Sun

This paper summarizes the research conducted for a malware detection project using the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity's MalMemAnalysis-2022 dataset. The purpose of the project was to explore the effectiveness and efficiency of machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sarah Nassar

Due to increasing threats from malicious software (malware) in both number and complexity, researchers have developed approaches to automatic detection and classification of malware, instead of analyzing methods for malware files manually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Ahmed Bensaoud , Nawaf Abudawaood , Jugal Kalita

Analysing malware is important to understand how malicious software works and to develop appropriate detection and prevention methods. Dynamic analysis can overcome evasion techniques commonly used to bypass static analysis and provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Baskoro Adi Pratomo , Toby Jackson , Pete Burnap , Andrew Hood , Eirini Anthi