Measuring relative accuracy of malware detectors in the absence of ground truth

J Charlton, P Du, JH Cho, S Xu - MILCOM 2018-2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we measure the relative accuracy of malware detectors in the absence of
ground truth regarding the quality of malware detectors (ie, the detection accuracy) or the …

Statistical estimation of malware detection metrics in the absence of ground truth

P Du, Z Sun, H Chen, JH Cho… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The accurate measurement of security metrics is a critical research problem, because an
improper or inaccurate measurement process can ruin the usefulness of the metrics. This is …

The malware detection challenge of accuracy

M Akour, I Alsmadi, M Alazab - 2016 2nd International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real time Malware detection is still a big challenge; although considerable research showed
advances of design and build systems that can automatically predicate the maliciousness of …

A new method for inferring ground-truth labels and malware detector effectiveness metrics

J Charlton, P Du, S Xu - Science of Cyber Security: Third International …, 2021 - Springer
In the context of malware detection, ground-truth labels of files are often difficult or costly to
obtain; as a consequence, malware detector effectiveness metrics (eg, false-positive and …

Maximizing accuracy in multi-scanner malware detection systems

MN Sakib, CT Huang, YD Lin - Computer Networks, 2020 - Elsevier
A variety of anti-malware scanners have been developed for malware detection. Previous
research has indicated that combining multiple different scanners can achieve better result …

Detecting malware with information complexity

N Alshahwan, ET Barr, D Clark, G Danezis - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
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 …

An empirical evaluation of automated machine learning techniques for malware detection

PP Kundu, L Anatharaman, T Truong-Huu - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Nowadays, it is increasingly difficult even for a machine learning expert to incorporate all of
the recent best practices into their modeling due to the fast development of state-of-the-art …

Enhancing robustness of malware detection using synthetically-adversarial samples

WL Tan, T Truong-Huu - GLOBECOM 2020-2020 IEEE Global …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malware detection is a critical task in cybersecurity to protect computers and networks from
malicious activities arising from malicious software. With the emergence of machine learning …

[PDF][PDF] Misleading metrics: On evaluating machine learning for malware with confidence

R Jordaney, Z Wang, D Papini, I Nouretdinov… - Tech. Rep., 2016 - s2lab.cs.ucl.ac.uk
Malware pose a serious and challenging threat across the Internet and the need for
automated learning-based approaches has become rapidly clear. Machine learning has …

Efficient and interpretable real-time malware detection using random-forest

A Mills, T Spyridopoulos, P Legg - … International conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malicious software, often described as malware, is one of the greatest threats to modern
computer systems, and attackers continue to develop more sophisticated methods to access …