Adversarial attacks against Windows PE malware detection: A survey of the state-of-the-art

X Ling, L Wu, J Zhang, Z Qu, W Deng, X Chen… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Malware has been one of the most damaging threats to computers that span across multiple
operating systems and various file formats. To defend against ever-increasing and ever …

Functionality-preserving adversarial machine learning for robust classification in cybersecurity and intrusion detection domains: A survey

A McCarthy, E Ghadafi, P Andriotis, P Legg - Journal of Cybersecurity …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Machine learning has become widely adopted as a strategy for dealing with a variety of
cybersecurity issues, ranging from insider threat detection to intrusion and malware …

Deceiving AI-based malware detection through polymorphic attacks

C Catalano, A Chezzi, M Angelelli, F Tommasi - Computers in Industry, 2022 - Elsevier
Malware detection is one of the most important tasks in cybersecurity. Recently, increasing
interest in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Machine Learning algorithms, which …

Stealing and evading malware classifiers and antivirus at low false positive conditions

M Rigaki, S Garcia - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Model stealing attacks have been successfully used in many machine learning
domains, but there is little understanding of how these attacks work against models that …

MalPatch: Evading DNN-Based Malware Detection With Adversarial Patches

D Zhan, Y Duan, Y Hu, W Li, S Guo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Static analysis is a crucial protection layer that enables modern antivirus systems to address
the rampant proliferation of malware. These systems are increasingly relying on deep neural …

European Artificial Intelligence Act: an AI security approach

K Kalodanis, P Rizomiliotis… - Information & Computer …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key technical challenges that derive
from the recently proposed European Artificial Intelligence Act and specifically, to investigate …

[PDF][PDF] An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Adversarial Examples in Malware Detection.

Y Ban, M Kim, H Cho - CMES-Computer Modeling in …, 2024 - cdn.techscience.cn
Antivirus vendors and the research community employ Machine Learning (ML) or Deep
Learning (DL)-based static analysis techniques for efficient identification of new threats …

[HTML][HTML] StratDef: Strategic defense against adversarial attacks in ML-based malware detection

A Rashid, J Such - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the years, most research towards defenses against adversarial attacks on machine
learning models has been in the image recognition domain. The ML-based malware …

XFL: naming functions in binaries with extreme multi-label learning

J Patrick-Evans, M Dannehl… - 2023 IEEE Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reverse engineers benefit from the presence of identifiers such as function names in a
binary, but usually these are removed for release. Training a machine learning model to …

Level Up with ML Vulnerability Identification: Leveraging Domain Constraints in Feature Space for Robust Android Malware Detection

H Bostani, Z Zhao, Z Liu, V Moonsamy - ACM Transactions on Privacy …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Machine Learning (ML) promises to enhance the efficacy of Android Malware Detection
(AMD); however, ML models are vulnerable to realistic evasion attacks—crafting realizable …