Malware has become one of the most serious threats to computer information system and
the current malware detection technology still has very significant limitations. In this paper …

Fine-grained code analysis in the context of malware is a complex and challenging task that
provides insight into malware code-layers (polymorphic/metamorphic), its data …

Generic computer virus detection is the need of the hour as most commercial antivirus
software fail to detect unknown and new viruses. Motivated by the success of …

Hardware Malware Detectors (HMDs) have recently been proposed as a defense against
the proliferation of malware. These detectors use low-level features, that can be collected by …

Malicious executables are programs designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system
without the owner's consent, which have become a serious threat to the security of computer …

Malware can range from simple adware to stealthy kernel control-flow modifying rootkits.
Although anti-virus software is popular, an ongoing cat-and-mouse cycle of anti-virus …

Improperly bounded program inputs present a major class of program defects. In secure
applications, these bugs can be exploited by malicious users, allowing them to overwrite …

Deep belief nets (DBNs) have been successfully applied in various fields ranging from
image classification and audio recognition to information retrieval. Compared with traditional …

Metamorphism is a technique that mutates the binary code using different obfuscations. It is
difficult to write a new metamorphic malware and in general malware writers reuse old …

A honeypot is a supplemented active defense system for network security. It traps attacks,
records intrusion information about tools and activities of the hacking process, and prevents …