Malware detection issues, challenges, and future directions: A survey

FA Aboaoja, A Zainal, FA Ghaleb, BAS Al-Rimy… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The evolution of recent malicious software with the rising use of digital services has
increased the probability of corrupting data, stealing information, or other cybercrimes by …

A study on malicious software behaviour analysis and detection techniques: Taxonomy, current trends and challenges

P Maniriho, AN Mahmood, MJM Chowdhury - Future Generation Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
There has been an increasing trend of malware release, which raises the alarm for security
professionals worldwide. It is often challenging to stay on top of different types of malware …

The role of machine learning in cybersecurity

G Apruzzese, P Laskov, E Montes de Oca… - … Threats: Research and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Machine Learning (ML) represents a pivotal technology for current and future information
systems, and many domains already leverage the capabilities of ML. However, deployment …

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 …

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 …

Robust deep learning early alarm prediction model based on the behavioural smell for android malware

E Amer, S El-Sappagh - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the widespread expansion of the Android malware industry, malicious Android
processes mining became a necessity to understand their behavior. Nevertheless, due to …

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 …

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 …

An automated vision-based deep learning model for efficient detection of android malware attacks

I Almomani, A Alkhayer, W El-Shafai - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, cybersecurity experts and researchers have given special attention to developing
cost-effective deep learning (DL)-based algorithms for Android malware detection (AMD) …

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 …