A survey on the evolution of fileless attacks and detection techniques

S Liu, G Peng, H Zeng, J Fu - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Fileless attacks have gained significant prominence and have become the prevailing type of
attack in recent years. The exceptional level of stealthiness and difficulty in detection …

Multiclass malware classification via first-and second-order texture statistics

V Verma, SK Muttoo, VB Singh - Computers & Security, 2020 - Elsevier
The generally increasing volume of malware poses a challenge to the predominantly used
static or dynamic analysis, which requires complex disassembly or time-intensive execution …

A survey on cross-architectural IoT malware threat hunting

AD Raju, IY Abualhaol, RS Giagone, Y Zhou… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the increase in non-Windows malware threats had turned the focus of the
cybersecurity community. Research works on hunting Windows PE-based malwares are …

Living-off-the-land command detection using active learning

T Ongun, JW Stokes, JB Or, K Tian… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, enterprises have been targeted by advanced adversaries who leverage
creative ways to infiltrate their systems and move laterally to gain access to critical data. One …

Effective and light-weight deobfuscation and semantic-aware attack detection for powershell scripts

Z Li, QA Chen, C Xiong, Y Chen, T Zhu… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, PowerShell is increasingly reported to appear in a variety of cyber attacks
ranging from advanced persistent threat, ransomware, phishing emails, cryptojacking …

MPSAutodetect: a malicious powershell script detection model based on stacked denoising auto-encoder

A Alahmadi, N Alkhraan, W BinSaeedan - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
PowerShell is an important tool used to automate administrative tasks. It is an open-source
tool that is pre-installed on Windows machines and is accessible on many other operating …

[HTML][HTML] A study of the relationship of malware detection mechanisms using Artificial Intelligence

J Song, S Choi, J Kim, K Park, C Park, J Kim, I Kim - ICT Express, 2024 - Elsevier
Implementation of malware detection using Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a
significant research theme to combat evolving various types of malwares. Researchers …

Amsi-based detection of malicious powershell code using contextual embeddings

D Hendler, S Kels, A Rubin - Proceedings of the 15th ACM Asia …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
PowerShell is a command-line shell, supporting a scripting language. It is widely used in
organizations for configuration management and task automation but is also increasingly …

Evaluations of AI‐based malicious PowerShell detection with feature optimizations

J Song, J Kim, S Choi, J Kim, I Kim - ETRI Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cyberattacks are often difficult to identify with traditional signature‐based detection, because
attackers continually find ways to bypass the detection methods. Therefore, researchers …

PowerDrive: accurate de-obfuscation and analysis of PowerShell malware

D Ugarte, D Maiorca, F Cara, G Giacinto - Detection of Intrusions and …, 2019 - Springer
PowerShell is nowadays a widely-used technology to administrate and manage Windows-
based operating systems. However, it is also extensively used by malware vectors to …