Malware detection with artificial intelligence: A systematic literature review

MG Gaber, M Ahmed, H Janicke - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In this survey, we review the key developments in the field of malware detection using AI and
analyze core challenges. We systematically survey state-of-the-art methods across five …

The curious case of machine learning in malware detection

S Saad, W Briguglio, H Elmiligi - arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07573, 2019 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we argue that machine learning techniques are not ready for malware
detection in the wild. Given the current trend in malware development and the increase of …

Dynamic malware analysis in the modern era—A state of the art survey

O Or-Meir, N Nissim, Y Elovici, L Rokach - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Although malicious software (malware) has been around since the early days of computers,
the sophistication and innovation of malware has increased over the years. In particular, the …

Malbert: A novel pre-training method for malware detection

Z Xu, X Fang, G Yang - Computers & Security, 2021 - Elsevier
Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system has been the most popular operating system
in the domain of personal computers in recent years. The popularity of this system has also …

A Comprehensive Analysis of Explainable AI for Malware Hunting

M Saqib, S Mahdavifar, BCM Fung… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In the past decade, the number of malware variants has increased rapidly. Many
researchers have proposed to detect malware using intelligent techniques, such as Machine …

Malware dataset generation and evaluation

P Borah, DK Bhattacharyya… - 2020 IEEE 4th Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid growth of technology and IT-enabled services, the potential damage caused
by malware is increasing rapidly. A large number of detection methods have been proposed …

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 …

The State-of-the-Art in AI-Based Malware Detection Techniques: A Review

A Wolsey - arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.11239, 2022 - arxiv.org
Artificial Intelligence techniques have evolved rapidly in recent years, revolutionising the
approaches used to fight against cybercriminals. But as the cyber security field has …

Decoding the secrets of machine learning in malware classification: A deep dive into datasets, feature extraction, and model performance

S Dambra, Y Han, S Aonzo, P Kotzias, A Vitale… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Many studies have proposed machine-learning (ML) models for malware detection and
classification, reporting an almost-perfect performance. However, they assemble ground …

When malware is packin'heat; limits of machine learning classifiers based on static analysis features

H Aghakhani, F Gritti, F Mecca, M Lindorfer… - Network and …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Machine learning techniques are widely used in addition to signatures and heuristics to
increase the detection rate of anti-malware software, as they automate the creation of …