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Existing research on malware detection focuses almost exclusively on the detection rate. However, in some cases, it is also important to understand the results of our algorithm, or to obtain more information, such as where to investigate in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Tony Quertier , Grégoire Barrué

Malware remains a serious problem for corporations, government agencies, and individuals, as attackers continue to use it as a tool to effect frequent and costly network intrusions. Machine learning holds the promise of automating the work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Joshua Saxe , Konstantin Berlin

The short note presents an image classification dataset consisting of 10 executable code varieties and approximately 50,000 virus examples. The malicious classes include 9 families of computer viruses and one benign set. The image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 David Noever , Samantha E. Miller Noever

In recent years, there has been a significant surge in malware attacks, necessitating more advanced preventive measures and remedial strategies. While several successful AI-based malware classification approaches exist categorized into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Quincy Card , Daniel Simpson , Kshitiz Aryal , Maanak Gupta , Sheikh Rabiul Islam

Malware classification is an important and challenging problem in information security. Modern malware classification techniques rely on machine learning models that can be trained on features such as opcode sequences, API calls, and byte…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Aparna Sunil Kale , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

The escalating frequency and scale of recent malware attacks underscore the urgent need for swift and precise malware classification in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. Key challenges include accurately categorizing closely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shrey Bavishi , Shrey Modi

High-quality data scarcity hinders malware detection, limiting ML performance. We introduce MalDataGen, an open-source modular framework for generating high-fidelity synthetic tabular data using modular deep learning models (e.g., WGAN-GP,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Kayua Oleques Paim , Angelo Gaspar Diniz Nogueira , Diego Kreutz , Weverton Cordeiro , Rodrigo Brandao Mansilha

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

Quantum machine learning (QML) is an emerging field of research that leverages quantum computing to improve the classical machine learning approach to solve complex real world problems. QML has the potential to address cybersecurity related…

Malware detection on binary executables provides a high availability to even binaries which are not disassembled or decompiled. However, a binary-level approach could cause ambiguity problems. In this paper, we propose a new feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Jeongwoo Kim , Eun-Sun Cho , Joon-Young Paik

Malware represents a significant security concern in today's digital landscape, as it can destroy or disable operating systems, steal sensitive user information, and occupy valuable disk space. However, current malware detection methods,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chenzhong Yin , Hantang Zhang , Mingxi Cheng , Xiongye Xiao , Xinghe Chen , Xin Ren , Paul Bogdan

Modern commercial antivirus systems increasingly rely on machine learning to keep up with the rampant inflation of new malware. However, it is well-known that machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). Previous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Wei Song , Xuezixiang Li , Sadia Afroz , Deepali Garg , Dmitry Kuznetsov , Heng Yin

Malicious software is a pernicious global problem. A novel multi-task learning framework is proposed in this paper for malware image classification for accurate and fast malware detection. We generate bitmap (BMP) and (PNG) images from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita

We explore the application of computer vision and machine learning (ML) techniques to predict material properties (e.g. compressive strength) based on SEM images. We show that it's possible to train ML models to predict materials…

This study explores the application of quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms to enhance cybersecurity threat detection, particularly in the classification of malware and intrusion detection within high-dimensional datasets. Classical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tanya Joshi , Krishnendu Guha

Machine learning has become an appealing signature-less approach to detect and classify malware because of its ability to generalize to never-before-seen samples and to handle large volumes of data. While traditional feature-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Daniel Gibert , Carles Mateu , Jordi Planes , Quan Le

Toward robust malware detection, we explore the attack surface of existing malware detection systems. We conduct root-cause analyses of the practical binary-level black-box adversarial malware examples. Additionally, we uncover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ahmed Abusnaina , Yizhen Wang , Sunpreet Arora , Ke Wang , Mihai Christodorescu , David Mohaisen

Detecting packed executables is a critical step in malware analysis, as packing obscures the original code and complicates static inspection. This study evaluates both classical feature-based methods and deep learning approaches that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ehab Alkhateeb , Ali Ghorbani , Arash Habibi Lashkari

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

We propose a hybrid machine learning architecture that simultaneously employs multiple deep learning models analyzing contextual and behavioral characteristics of Windows portable executable, producing a final prediction based on a decision…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Dmitrijs Trizna