Deep learning for zero-day malware detection and classification: A survey

F Deldar, M Abadi - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Zero-day malware is malware that has never been seen before or is so new that no anti-
malware software can catch it. This novelty and the lack of existing mitigation strategies …

A survey on malware detection with graph representation learning

T Bilot, N El Madhoun, K Al Agha, A Zouaoui - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Malware detection has become a major concern due to the increasing number and
complexity of malware. Traditional detection methods based on signatures and heuristics …

MCTVD: A malware classification method based on three-channel visualization and deep learning

H Deng, C Guo, G Shen, Y Cui, Y Ping - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rapid increase in the number of malware, the detection and classification of
malware have become more challenging. In recent years, many malware classification …

Provably tightest linear approximation for robustness verification of sigmoid-like neural networks

Z Zhang, Y Wu, S Liu, J Liu, M Zhang - Proceedings of the 37th IEEE …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The robustness of deep neural networks is crucial to modern AI-enabled systems and
should be formally verified. Sigmoid-like neural networks have been adopted in a wide …

MalSort: Lightweight and efficient image-based malware classification using masked self-supervised framework with Swin Transformer

F Wang, X Shi, F Yang, R Song, Q Li, Z Tan… - Journal of Information …, 2024 - Elsevier
The proliferation of malware has exhibited a substantial surge in both quantity and diversity,
posing significant threats to the Internet and indispensable network applications. The …

Learning Contextualized Action Representations in Sequential Decision Making for Adversarial Malware Optimization

R Ebrahimi, J Pacheco, J Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning (DL)-based malware detectors have shown promise in swiftly detecting
unseen malware without expensive dynamic malware behavior analysis. These detectors …

DualApp: Tight Over-Approximation for Neural Network Robustness Verification via Under-Approximation

Y Wu, Z Zhang, Z Xue, S Liu, M Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11186, 2022 - arxiv.org
The robustness of neural networks is fundamental to the hosting system's reliability and
security. Formal verification has been proven to be effective in providing provable …

IMaler: An Adversarial Attack Framework to Obfuscate Malware Structure Against DGCNN-Based Classifier via Reinforcement Learning

Y Chen, Y Feng, Z Wang, J Zhao… - ICC 2023-IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by the success of graph neural network in graph data classification, graph neural
networks have been widely used in malware classification and they have been proven to be …

Centroid-Based Learning for Malware Detection and Novel Family Identification

S Vijayakumar, Z Wang, Y Yao, M Fredrikson - openreview.net
Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) data categories while preserving the accuracy of existing
classifications is a pressing challenge in many domains. Conventional methods often falter …