A survey of crypto ransomware attack detection methodologies: an evolving outlook

A Alqahtani, FT Sheldon - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recently, ransomware attacks have been among the major threats that target a wide range
of Internet and mobile users throughout the world, especially critical cyber physical systems …

A novel deep learning-based approach for malware detection

K Shaukat, S Luo, V Varadharajan - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Malware detection approaches can be classified into two classes, including static analysis
and dynamic analysis. Conventional approaches of the two classes have their respective …

Malware identification using visualization images and deep learning

S Ni, Q Qian, R Zhang - Computers & Security, 2018 - Elsevier
Currently, malware is one of the most serious threats to Internet security. In this paper we
propose a malware classification algorithm that uses static features called MCSC (Malware …

Automated behavioral analysis of malware: A case study of wannacry ransomware

Q Chen, RA Bridges - 2017 16th IEEE International Conference …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ransomware, a class of self-propagating malware that uses encryption to hold the victims'
data ransom, has emerged in recent years as one of the most dangerous cyber threats, with …

An ensemble of pre-trained transformer models for imbalanced multiclass malware classification

F Demirkıran, A Çayır, U Ünal, H Dağ - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Classification of malware families is crucial for a comprehensive understanding of how they
can infect devices, computers, or systems. Hence, malware identification enables security …

A pseudo feedback-based annotated TF-IDF technique for dynamic crypto-ransomware pre-encryption boundary delineation and features extraction

BAS Al-Rimy, MA Maarof, M Alazab, F Alsolami… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cryptography employed against user files makes the effect of crypto-ransomware attacks
irreversible even after detection and removal. Thus, detecting such attacks early, ie during …

The dynamic analysis of WannaCry ransomware

DY Kao, SC Hsiao - 2018 20th International conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The global ransomware cyberattacks cripples the national hospital system across the United
Kingdom, and causes waves of appointments and operations to be cancelled. Similar …

The static analysis of WannaCry ransomware

SC Hsiao, DY Kao - 2018 20th international conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hacking weapons come in handy for cyber criminals anytime. Ransomware has increased
in popularity. Its creators are playing our fears. The rapid proliferation of ransomware attack …

Windows malware detector using convolutional neural network based on visualization images

SD SL, CD Jaidhar - IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolution of malware is continuing at an alarming rate, despite the efforts made towards
detecting and mitigating them. Malware analysis is needed to defend against its …

[HTML][HTML] A novel machine learning approach for detecting first-time-appeared malware

K Shaukat, S Luo, V Varadharajan - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conventional malware detection approaches have the overhead of feature extraction, the
requirement of domain experts, and are time-consuming and resource-intensive. Learning …