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 …

A Comprehensive Analysis of Explainable AI for Malware Hunting

M Saqib, S Mahdavifar, BCM Fung… - ACM Computing …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
In the past decade, the number of malware variants has increased rapidly. Many
researchers have proposed to detect malware using intelligent techniques, such as Machine …

A survey on explainability of graph neural networks

J Kakkad, J Jannu, K Sharma, C Aggarwal… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful graph-based deep-learning models that have
gained significant attention and demonstrated remarkable performance in various domains …

A wolf in sheep's clothing: practical black-box adversarial attacks for evading learning-based windows malware detection in the wild

X Ling, Z Wu, B Wang, W Deng, J Wu, S Ji… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024‏ - usenix.org
Given the remarkable achievements of existing learning-based malware detection in both
academia and industry, this paper presents MalGuise, a practical black-box adversarial …

Improving {ML-based} Binary Function Similarity Detection by Assessing and Deprioritizing Control Flow Graph Features

J Wang, C Zhang, L Chen, Y Rong, Y Wu… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024‏ - usenix.org
Machine learning-based binary function similarity detection (ML-BFSD) has witnessed
significant progress recently. They often choose control flow graph (CFG) as an important …

A survey of explainable graph neural networks for cyber malware analysis

D Warmsley, A Waagen, J Xu, Z Liu… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malicious cybersecurity activities have become increasingly worrisome for individuals and
companies alike. While machine learning methods like Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) …

[HTML][HTML] A novel CGBoost deep learning algorithm for coseismic landslide susceptibility prediction

Q Yang, X Wang, J Yin, A Du, A Zhang, L Wang… - Geoscience …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The accurate prediction of landslide susceptibility shortly after a violent earthquake is quite
vital to the emergency rescue in the 72-h “golden window”. However, the limited quantity of …

GAGE: Genetic algorithm-based graph explainer for malware analysis

M Saqib, BCM Fung, P Charland… - 2024 IEEE 40th …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malware analysts often prefer reverse engineering using Call Graphs, Control Flow Graphs
(CFGs), and Data Flow Graphs (DFGs), which involves the utilization of black-box Deep …

Malgne: Enhancing the performance and efficiency of cfg-based malware detector by graph node embedding in low dimension space

H Peng, J Yang, D Zhao, X Xu, Y Pu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rich semantic information in Control Flow Graphs (CFGs) of executable programs has
made Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) a key focus for malware detection. However, existing …

EAGLE: Evasion attacks guided by local explanations against Android malware classification

Z Shu, G Yan - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With machine learning techniques widely used to automate Android malware detection, it is
important to investigate the robustness of these methods against evasion attacks. A recent …