A dynamic Windows malware detection and prediction method based on contextual understanding of API call sequence

E Amer, I Zelinka - Computers & Security, 2020 - Elsevier
Malware API call graph derived from API call sequences is considered as a representative
technique to understand the malware behavioral characteristics. However, it is troublesome …

[HTML][HTML] MalDAE: Detecting and explaining malware based on correlation and fusion of static and dynamic characteristics

W Han, J Xue, Y Wang, L Huang, Z Kong, L Mao - computers & security, 2019 - Elsevier
It is a wide-spread way to detect malware by analyzing its behavioral characteristics based
on API call sequences. However, previous studies usually just focus on its static or dynamic …

A multi-perspective malware detection approach through behavioral fusion of api call sequence

E Amer, I Zelinka, S El-Sappagh - Computers & Security, 2021 - Elsevier
The widespread development of the malware industry is considered the main threat to our e-
society. Therefore, malware analysis should also be enriched with smart heuristic tools that …

Employing program semantics for malware detection

S Naval, V Laxmi, M Rajarajan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, malware has emerged as a critical security threat. In addition, malware
authors continue to embed numerous anti-detection features to evade the existing malware …

Api2vec: Learning representations of api sequences for malware detection

L Cui, J Cui, Y Ji, Z Hao, L Li, Z Ding - Proceedings of the 32nd ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Analyzing malware based on API call sequence is an effective approach as the sequence
reflects the dynamic execution behavior of malware. Recent advancements in deep learning …

[HTML][HTML] API-MalDetect: Automated malware detection framework for windows based on API calls and deep learning techniques

P Maniriho, AN Mahmood, MJM Chowdhury - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents API-MalDetect, a new deep learning-based automated framework for
detecting malware attacks in Windows systems. The framework uses an NLP-based encoder …

ASSCA: API sequence and statistics features combined architecture for malware detection

L Xiaofeng, J Fangshuo, Z Xiao, Y Shengwei, S Jing… - Computer Networks, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new deep learning and machine learning combined model is proposed for
malware behavior analysis. One part of it analyzes the dependency relation in API …

Behavior-based features model for malware detection

HS Galal, YB Mahdy, MA Atiea - Journal of Computer Virology and …, 2016 - Springer
The sharing of malicious code libraries and techniques over the Internet has vastly
increased the release of new malware variants in an unprecedented rate. Malware variants …

Improvement of malware detection and classification using API call sequence alignment and visualization

H Kim, J Kim, Y Kim, I Kim, KJ Kim, H Kim - Cluster Computing, 2019 - Springer
Conventional malware detection technologies have the limitation to detect malware because
recent malware uses a variety of the avoidance techniques such as obfuscation, packing …

DMalNet: Dynamic malware analysis based on API feature engineering and graph learning

C Li, Z Cheng, H Zhu, L Wang, Q Lv, Y Wang, N Li… - Computers & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are widely considered a useful data
source for dynamic malware analysis to understand the behavioral characteristics of …