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 dynamic Windows malware detection and prediction method based on contextual understanding of API call sequence

E Amer, I Zelinka - Computers & Security, 2020 - Elsevier
Malware API call graph derived from API call sequences is considered as a representative
technique to understand the malware behavioral characteristics. However, it is troublesome …

When malware is packin'heat; limits of machine learning classifiers based on static analysis features

H Aghakhani, F Gritti, F Mecca, M Lindorfer… - … and Distributed System …, 2020 - hal.science
Machine learning techniques are widely used in addition to signatures and heuristics to
increase the detection rate of anti-malware software, as they automate the creation of …

A novel approach to detect malware based on API call sequence analysis

Y Ki, E Kim, HK Kim - International Journal of Distributed …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In the era of ubiquitous sensors and smart devices, detecting malware is becoming an
endless battle between ever-evolving malware and antivirus programs that need to process …

Two-stage ransomware detection using dynamic analysis and machine learning techniques

J Hwang, J Kim, S Lee, K Kim - Wireless Personal Communications, 2020 - Springer
Detecting ransomware is harder than general malware because of the ever-increasing
number of ransomwares with different signatures, which makes traditional signature-based …

Windows PE malware detection using ensemble learning

NA Azeez, OE Odufuwa, S Misra, J Oluranti… - Informatics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this Internet age, there are increasingly many threats to the security and safety of users
daily. One of such threats is malicious software otherwise known as malware (ransomware …

Evolving malware & ddos attacks: Decadal longitudinal study

OI Falowo, M Ozer, C Li, JB Abdo - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study conducts analysis of cybersecurity events from 2013 to 2023, concentrating on
major incidents associated with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), and malware attacks …

A multi-perspective malware detection approach through behavioral fusion of api call sequence

E Amer, I Zelinka, S El-Sappagh - Computers & Security, 2021 - Elsevier
The widespread development of the malware industry is considered the main threat to our e-
society. Therefore, malware analysis should also be enriched with smart heuristic tools that …

DTB-IDS: an intrusion detection system based on decision tree using behavior analysis for preventing APT attacks

D Moon, H Im, I Kim, JH Park - The Journal of supercomputing, 2017 - Springer
Due to rapid growth of communications and networks, a cyber-attack with malicious codes
has been coming as a new paradigm in information security area since last few years. In …

Applying NLP techniques to malware detection in a practical environment

M Mimura, R Ito - International Journal of Information Security, 2022 - Springer
Executable files still remain popular to compromise the endpoint computers. These
executable files are often obfuscated to avoid anti-virus programs. To examine all suspicious …