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This work focuses on a specific front of the malware detection arms-race, namely the detection of persistent, disk-resident malware. We exploit normalised compression distance (NCD), an information theoretic measure, applied directly to…

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Online scanners analyze user-submitted files with a large number of security tools and provide access to the analysis results. As the most popular online scanner, VirusTotal (VT) is often used for determining if samples are malicious,…

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Malicious software (malware) poses an increasing threat to the security of communication systems as the number of interconnected mobile devices increases exponentially. While some existing malware detection and classification approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Julian Busch , Anton Kocheturov , Volker Tresp , Thomas Seidl

Containerization, driven by Docker, has transformed application development and deployment by enhancing efficiency and scalability. However, the rapid adoption of container technologies introduces significant security challenges that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Gogulakrishnan Thiyagarajan , Prabhudarshi Nayak

The rise in frequency and complexity of malware attacks are viewed as a major threat to modern digital infrastructure, which means that traditional signature-based detection methods are becoming less effective. As cyber threats continue to…

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In this paper, we consider malware classification using deep learning techniques and image-based features. We employ a wide variety of deep learning techniques, including multilayer perceptrons (MLP), convolutional neural networks (CNN),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Pratikkumar Prajapati , Mark Stamp

Malware analysis techniques are divided into static and dynamic analysis. Both techniques can be bypassed by circumvention techniques such as obfuscation. In a series of works, the authors have promoted the use of symbolic executions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel , Axel Legay

Most video forensic techniques look for traces within the data stream that are, however, mostly ineffective when dealing with strongly compressed or low resolution videos. Recent research highlighted that useful forensic traces are also…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Pengpeng Yang , Daniele Baracchi , Massimo Iuliani , Dasara Shullani , Rongrong Ni , Yao Zhao , Alessandro Piva

Crypto-ransomware remains a significant threat to governments and companies alike, with high-profile cyber security incidents regularly making headlines. Many different detection systems have been proposed as solutions to the ever-changing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Simon R Davies , Richard Macfarlane , William J Buchanan

Recently researchers have proposed using deep learning-based systems for malware detection. Unfortunately, all deep learning classification systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Previous work has studied adversarial attacks against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Jack W. Stokes , De Wang , Mady Marinescu , Marc Marino , Brian Bussone

The impressive growth of smartphone devices in combination with the rising ubiquity of using mobile platforms for sensitive applications such as Internet banking, have triggered a rapid increase in mobile malware. In recent literature, many…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Harris Papadopoulos , Nestoras Georgiou , Charalambos Eliades , Andreas Konstantinidis

Beyond its highly publicized victories in Go, there have been numerous successful applications of deep learning in information retrieval, computer vision and speech recognition. In cybersecurity, an increasing number of companies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu

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…

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This paper describes a multi-feature dataset for training machine learning classifiers for detecting malicious Windows Portable Executable (PE) files. The dataset includes four feature sets from 18,551 binary samples belonging to five…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Muhammad Irfan Yousuf , Izza Anwer , Tanzeela Shakir , Minahil Siddiqui , Maysoon Shahid

Modern malware is designed with mutation characteristics, namely polymorphism and metamorphism, which causes an enormous growth in the number of variants of malware samples. Categorization of malware samples on the basis of their behaviors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Mansour Ahmadi , Dmitry Ulyanov , Stanislav Semenov , Mikhail Trofimov , Giorgio Giacinto

With the advance in malware technology, attackers create new ways to hide their malicious code from antivirus services. One way to obfuscate an attack is to use common files as cover to hide the malicious scripts, so the malware will look…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Eli Belkind , Ran Dubin , Amit Dvir

Dynamic malware analysis requires executing untrusted binaries inside strongly isolated, rapidly resettable environments. In practice, many detonation workflows remain tied to heavyweight hypervisors or dedicated bare-metal labs, limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Alejandro Avina , Yashas Hariprasad , Naveen Kumar Chaudhary

Due to its open-source nature, the Android operating system has consistently been a primary target for attackers. Learning-based methods have made significant progress in the field of Android malware detection. However, traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Xingyuan Wei , Zijun Cheng , Ning Li , Qiujian Lv , Ziyang Yu , Degang Sun

As technology advances, Android malware continues to pose significant threats to devices and sensitive data. The open-source nature of the Android OS and the availability of its SDK contribute to this rapid growth. Traditional malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Saleh J. Makkawy , Michael J. De Lucia , Kenneth E. Barner

It is needed to ensure the integrity of systems that process sensitive information and control many aspects of everyday life. We examine the use of machine learning algorithms to detect malware using the system calls generated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Michael R. Smith , Joe B. Ingram , Christopher C. Lamb , Timothy J. Draelos , Justin E. Doak , James B. Aimone , Conrad D. James