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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

Network security is a critical concern in the digital landscape of today, with users demanding secure browsing experiences and protection of their personal data. This study explores the dynamic integration of Machine Learning (ML)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Pablo Benlloch , Oscar Romero , Antonio Leon , Jaime Lloret

Machine learning (ML)-based malware detection systems are becoming increasingly important as malware threats increase and get more sophisticated. PDF files are often used as vectors for phishing attacks because they are widely regarded as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ran Liu , Charles Nicholas

In today's interconnected digital landscape, the proliferation of malware poses a significant threat to the security and stability of computer networks and systems worldwide. As the complexity of malicious tactics, techniques, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Dhruv Nandakumar , Devin Quinn , Elijah Soba , Eunyoung Kim , Christopher Redino , Chris Chan , Kevin Choi , Abdul Rahman , Edward Bowen

IDS aims to protect computer networks from security threats by detecting, notifying, and taking appropriate action to prevent illegal access and protect confidential information. As the globe becomes increasingly dependent on technology and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy , Bichitrananda Behera

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of malware detection and classification based on image analysis. We convert executable files to images and apply image recognition using deep learning (DL) models. To train these models, we employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Niket Bhodia , Pratikkumar Prajapati , Fabio Di Troia , Mark Stamp

In cyberattack detection and prevention systems, cybersecurity analysts always prefer solutions that are as interpretable and understandable as rule-based or signature-based detection. This is because of the need to tune and optimize these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-30 William Briguglio , Sherif Saad

Malware has become a formidable threat as it has been growing exponentially in number and sophistication, thus, it is imperative to have a solution that is easy to implement, reliable, and effective. While recent research has introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jahez Abraham Johny , Vinod P. , Asmitha K. A. , G. Radhamani , Rafidha Rehiman K. A. , Mauro Conti

Due to the popularity of portable document format (PDF) and increasing number of vulnerabilities in major PDF viewer applications, malware writers continue to use it to deliver malware via web downloads, email attachments and other methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Jason Zhang

Our computer systems for decades have been threatened by various types of hardware and software attacks of which Malwares have been one of them. This malware has the ability to steal, destroy, contaminate, gain unintended access, or even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Abhijitt Dhavlle , Sanket Shukla

The last decades have been characterized by unprecedented technological advances, many of them powered by modern technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). The world has become more digitally connected than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Marc Schmitt

In the digitized world, smartphones and their apps play an important role. To name just a few examples, some apps offer possibilities for entertainment, others for online banking, and others offer support for two-factor authentication.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Alexander Hefter , Christoph Sendner , Alexandra Dmitrienko

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become popular for medical image analysis tasks like cancer diagnosis and lesion detection. However, a recent study demonstrates that medical deep learning systems can be compromised by carefully-engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Xingjun Ma , Yuhao Niu , Lin Gu , Yisen Wang , Yitian Zhao , James Bailey , Feng Lu

Machine learning (ML) techniques are increasingly common in security applications, such as malware and intrusion detection. However, ML models are often susceptible to evasion attacks, in which an adversary makes changes to the input (such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Liang Tong , Bo Li , Chen Hajaj , Chaowei Xiao , Ning Zhang , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Behavior of a malware varies with respect to malware types. Therefore,knowing type of a malware affects strategies of system protection softwares. Many malware type classification models empowered by machine and deep learning achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Aykut Çayır , Uğur Ünal , Hasan Dağ

Malware is being increasingly threatening and malware detectors based on traditional signature-based analysis are no longer suitable for current malware detection. Recently, the models based on machine learning (ML) are developed for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Yuzhou Lin , Xiaolin Chang

This study conducts a thorough examination of malware detection using machine learning techniques, focusing on the evaluation of various classification models using the Mal-API-2019 dataset. The aim is to advance cybersecurity capabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Zhenglin Li , Haibei Zhu , Houze Liu , Jintong Song , Qishuo Cheng

Confronting the substantial challenges of malware detection in cybersecurity necessitates solutions that are both robust and adaptable to the ever-evolving threat environment. The paper introduces Meta Learning Malware Detection (MeLeMaD),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Ajvad Haneef K , Karan Kuwar Singh , Madhu Kumar S D

The convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is increasingly being applied to new domains, such as malware detection, where it is able to learn malicious behavior from raw bytes extracted from executables. These architectures reach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Octavian Suciu , Scott E. Coull , Jeffrey Johns