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 …

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 …

A Malware Detection Approach Based on Feature Engineering and Behavior Analysis

M Torres, R Álvarez, M Cazorla - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cybercriminals are constantly developing new techniques to circumvent the security
measures implemented by experts and researchers, so malware is able to evolve very …

Lightweight behavior-based malware detection

M Anisetti, CA Ardagna, N Bena… - … on Management of …, 2023 - Springer
Modern malware detection tools rely on special permissions to collect data that can reveal
the presence of suspicious software within a machine. Typical data that they collect for this …

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 …

Evaluation of machine learning algorithms for malware detection

MS Akhtar, T Feng - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This research study mainly focused on the dynamic malware detection. Malware
progressively changes, leading to the use of dynamic malware detection techniques in this …

[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 …

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 …

Performance comparison of training datasets for system call-based malware detection with thread information

Y Kajiwara, J Zheng, K Mouri - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on …, 2021 - search.ieice.org
The number of malware, including variants and new types, is dramatically increasing over
the years, posing one of the greatest cybersecurity threats nowadays. To counteract such …

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 …