Ransomware is a very effective form of malware that is recently spreading out on an
impressive number of workstations and smartphones. This malware blocks the access to the …

The phenomenon of information security threats increases every day. The statistical reports
from antivirus companies show that attackers use malicious applications as one of the major …

Metamorphic malware modifies its code structure using a morphing engine to evade
traditional signature-based detection. Previous research has shown the use of opcode …

The rapid growth of malicious software (malware) production in recent decades and the
increasing number of threats posed by malware to network environments, such as the …

Metamorphic malware is well known for evading signature-based detection. To cope up with
numerous malware which can emerge easily by using open source malware generator …

Recently, malwares in security threats have a top rank which can damage computing
systems and networks seriously. Over time malwares become more complicated and …

Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) have been widely used recently for detection of
metamorphic malware families. In this paper, we address some practical aspects which …

This dissertation explores functional malware classification using running window entropy
and machine learning classifiers. This topic was under researched in the prior literature, but …

With the ever-increasing growth of network resources, a great number of organizations are
extremely dependent on the internet for operational activities as such, exposing their …