PDF malware detection based on optimizable decision trees

Q Abu Al-Haija, A Odeh, H Qattous - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Portable document format (PDF) files are one of the most universally used file types. This
has incentivized hackers to develop methods to use these normally innocent PDF files to …

Boosting training for PDF malware classifier via active learning

Y Li, X Wang, Z Shi, R Zhang, J Xue… - International journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Machine learning algorithms are widely used for cybersecurity applications, include
spam, malware detection. In these applications, the machine learning model has to face …

Design and analysis of machine learning based technique for malware identification and classification of portable document format files

SS Alshamrani - Security and Communication Networks, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Modern day antivirus software, which is available commercially, is incapable of providing the
protection from the malicious portable document format (PDF) files and thus considered as a …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative analysis of machine learning models for PDF malware detection: Evaluating different training and testing criteria

B Khan, M Arshad, SS Khan - Journal of Cybersecurity, 2023 - researchgate.net
The proliferation of maliciously coded documents as file transfers increase has led to a rise
in sophisticated attacks. Portable Document Format (PDF) files have emerged as a major …

PDF Malware Detection Based on Fuzzy Unordered Rule Induction Algorithm (FURIA)

S Mejjaouli, S Guizani - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The number of cyber-attacks is increasing daily, and attackers are coming up with new ways
to harm their target by disseminating viruses and other malware. With new inventions and …

[PDF][PDF] XAI-PDF: a robust framework for malicious PDF detection leveraging SHAP-based feature engineering.

M Al-Fayoumi, QA Al-Haija, R Armoush… - Int. Arab J. Inf …, 2024 - researchgate.net
With the increasing number of malicious PDF files used for cyberattacks, it is essential to
develop efficient and accurate classifiers to detect and prevent these threats. Machine …

PDF Malware Detection: Towards Machine Learning Modeling with Explainability Analysis

GMS Hossain, K Deb, H Janicke, IH Sarker - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most widely used file types, thus
fraudsters insert harmful code into victims' PDF documents to compromise their equipment …

Malware detection using byte streams of different file formats

YS Jeong, SM Lee, JH Kim, J Woo, AR Kang - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malware detection is becoming more important task as we face more data on the Internet.
Web users are vulnerable to non-executable files such as Word files and Hangul Word …

Intelligent optimal gated recurrent unit based malicious pdf detection and classification model

PP Chandran, M Jeyakarthic - … International Conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Because of the familiarity of the portable document format (PDF) and raising number of
susceptibilities in most of the PDF viewer applications, malware writers endure to utilize it to …

Overview of pdf malware classifiers

SR Gopaldinne, H Kaur, P Kaur… - 2021 2nd International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
PDF means Portable Document Format. It is a commonly used format for data exchange
nowadays. Though, it turns out to be the most striking to the target for misuse by malware …