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 …

Api2vec++: Boosting api sequence representation for malware detection and classification

L Cui, J Yin, J Cui, Y Ji, P Liu, Z Hao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analyzing malware based on API call sequences is an effective approach, as these
sequences reflect the dynamic execution behavior of malware. Recent advancements in …

A Malware Detection Framework Based on Semantic Information of Behavioral Features

Y Zhang, S Yang, L Xu, X Li, D Zhao - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
As the amount of malware has grown rapidly in recent years, it has become the most
dominant attack method in network security. Learning execution behavior, especially …

Cruparamer: Learning on parameter-augmented api sequences for malware detection

X Chen, Z Hao, L Li, L Cui, Y Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Learning on execution behaviour, ie, sequences of API calls, is proven to be effective in
malware detection. In this paper, we present CruParamer, a deep neural network based …

A novel deep framework for dynamic malware detection based on API sequence intrinsic features

C Li, Q Lv, N Li, Y Wang, D Sun, Y Qiao - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Dynamic malware detection executes the software in a secured virtual environment and
monitors its run-time behavior. This technique widely uses API sequence analysis to identify …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Dynamic malware analysis based on API sequence semantic fusion

S Zhang, J Wu, M Zhang, W Yang - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The existing dynamic malware detection methods based on API call sequences ignore the
semantic information of functions. Simply mapping API to numerical values does not reflect …

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 …