Survey of machine learning techniques for malware analysis

D Ucci, L Aniello, R Baldoni - Computers & Security, 2019 - Elsevier
Coping with malware is getting more and more challenging, given their relentless growth in
complexity and volume. One of the most common approaches in literature is using machine …

Data-driven cybersecurity incident prediction: A survey

N Sun, J Zhang, P Rimba, S Gao… - … surveys & tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by the increasing scale and high profile cybersecurity incidents related public data,
recent years we have witnessed a paradigm shift in understanding and defending against …

Log2vec: A heterogeneous graph embedding based approach for detecting cyber threats within enterprise

F Liu, Y Wen, D Zhang, X Jiang, X Xing… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Conventional attacks of insider employees and emerging APT are both major threats for the
organizational information system. Existing detections mainly concentrate on users' behavior …

A survey of the recent trends in deep learning based malware detection

UH Tayyab, FB Khan, MH Durad, A Khan… - Journal of Cybersecurity …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Monitoring Indicators of Compromise (IOC) leads to malware detection for identifying
malicious activity. Malicious activities potentially lead to a system breach or data …

Adversarial attacks against Windows PE malware detection: A survey of the state-of-the-art

X Ling, L Wu, J Zhang, Z Qu, W Deng, X Chen… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Malware has been one of the most damaging threats to computers that span across multiple
operating systems and various file formats. To defend against ever-increasing and ever …

Measuring and modeling the label dynamics of online {Anti-Malware} engines

S Zhu, J Shi, L Yang, B Qin, Z Zhang, L Song… - 29th USENIX Security …, 2020 - usenix.org
VirusTotal provides malware labels from a large set of anti-malware engines, and is heavily
used by researchers for malware annotation and system evaluation. Since different engines …

A survey of adversarial attack and defense methods for malware classification in cyber security

S Yan, J Ren, W Wang, L Sun… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malware poses a severe threat to cyber security. Attackers use malware to achieve their
malicious purposes, such as unauthorized access, stealing confidential data, blackmailing …

The Circle of life: A {large-scale} study of the {IoT} malware lifecycle

O Alrawi, C Lever, K Valakuzhy, K Snow… - 30th USENIX Security …, 2021 - usenix.org
Our current defenses against IoT malware may not be adequate to remediate an IoT
malware attack similar to the Mirai botnet. This work seeks to investigate this matter by …

Malware classification and composition analysis: A survey of recent developments

A Abusitta, MQ Li, BCM Fung - Journal of Information Security and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Malware detection and classification are becoming more and more challenging, given the
complexity of malware design and the recent advancement of communication and …

Opening the blackbox of virustotal: Analyzing online phishing scan engines

P Peng, L Yang, L Song, G Wang - Proceedings of the Internet …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Online scan engines such as VirusTotal are heavily used by researchers to label malicious
URLs and files. Unfortunately, it is not well understood how the labels are generated and …